| What is it? |
Yellowstone National Park was America’s very first! It protects the mountains, forests, canyons, and geothermal features surrounding an ancient supervolcano in northwestern Wyoming! |
| What makes it beautiful? |
Yellowstone is huge! To list all of the beautiful things here would take years! It is a place colored by greenery and flowers on land and bright blue and green microorganisms that somehow thrive in the scalding hot volcanic water of the park’s springs! In vast valleys, mighty bison graze and sleek wolves hunt! Bears and elk forage through the dense forests!
It’s a landscape constantly changing as it moves across a massive volcanic hotspot. Springs and geysers start and stop, mudpots bubble and bloop, and all around, the characteristic smell of sulfur ingrains this place irrevocably in memory. It’s a place of both starkness and vivacity, of hardship and ease, where you can find yourself surrounded by fellow explorers or miles from another human! It is a perfect example of a park for the people, and in spite of them! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? |
HERE’S HOW:
- Pay the entrance fee to help maintain trails, signs, structures, and other visitor services!
- Volunteer at Yellowstone National Park!
- Donate to the Yellowstone National Park!
- Be a responsible visitor! Remember the old adages: Pack out what you pack in! Take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but footprints!
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| Where is this place? |
Northeast Entrance:
- On Highway 212
5 miles E of Silver Gate, MT 59081
Northwest Entrance:
- 2819 US-89
Gardiner, MT 59030
East Entrance:
- N Fork Hwy
52 miles E of Cody
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
South Entrance:
- On Highway 191
57 miles N of Jackson
Moran, WY 83013
West Entrance:
- 16 Boundary St
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
From Casper: ~266mi (429km) — 4.5hrs
From Cheyenne: ~429mi (691km) — 7.2hrs
From Evanston: ~248mi (400km) — 4.2hrs
From Jackson: ~57mi (92km) — 1hrs |
| When should I go? |
Your best bet to dodge the crowds and to maximize road access is to visit in early spring after the roads open for the first time, or after Labor Day when kids go back to school. The earlier you start, the better! |
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