Yellowstone National Park hosted 316,662 recreation visits in October 2021, down 12% from October 2020 when there were 359,889 visits. That year saw the busiest October on record making October this year the second busiest. Recreation visits this October were…
Yellowstone National Park is asking for public comment on revised Commercial Use Authorization and service-related operating plans that will guide commercial services in the park for the next five years. The purpose of these revisions is to update the existing Commercial Use Authorization…
Two university professors are launching a project to remap the entire Sour Creek Dome area of Yellowstone National Park and collect samples to better understand the geological history of the volcanic eruption in that area. Although Yellowstone is very unlikely…
It’s officially winter in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The West, South and East entrances and all roads, in Yellowstone with one exception, closed over the weekend. The exception is the road from the park’s North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana,…
Yellowstone Parks’s Norris Geyser Basin has risen by 1½ cm over the last few months and scientists are not exactly sure why. Michael Poland, scientist in charge of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says the uplift was recorded by a GPS monitoring station in…
