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Yellowstone National Park Opens North And West Entrances For Early Season Visitors

Gardiner, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park opened its north and west entrances on Friday, April 17 for the spring and summer season, bringing early visitors into the park even with snow still on the ground. Some visitors arrived with a clear goal in mind. “The bison. We really want to see

Yellowstone delays April 17 road openings after winter storm

Yellowstone delays April 17 road openings after winter storm

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. — Several entrances and road sections that are set to open at 8 a.m. Friday, April 17 are delayed until noon because of a major winter storm, Yellowstone National Park announced in a release. Road sections expected to open at noon April 17 are the West

Select Yellowstone National Park entrances and roads open to public April 17

Beginning at 8 a.m., April 17, select entrances and roads in Yellowstone National Park will open for the summer season, weather permitting, as part of the annual spring opening, the park said Wednesday. In a news release, Yellowstone said its North Entrance in Gardiner and West Entrance in West

Texas man gets jail time for walking off boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park

A Texas man will have to spend some cold hard time in prison for what he did to a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. Eric Bedient, 50, of Frisco, Texas, pleaded guilty to walking off the boardwalk in the Mammoth Hot Springs area. On March 31, he was sentenced

Translocated grizzly bear has cubs in Yellowstone area, strengthening grizzly's genetic diversity

Translocated grizzly bear has cubs in Yellowstone area, strengthening grizzly's genetic diversity

HELENA, Mont. – Montana and Wyoming-based bear biologists celebrated as a female grizzly bear, who had been transferred to the Yellowstone area from Northwestern Montana, emerged from her den with two new cubs. She was moved from the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem in 2024 and put in the Greater Yellowstone

Yellowstone boaters warned to clean gear before May 23 launch

Yellowstone boaters warned to clean gear before May 23 launch

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. — Yellowstone National Park (YNP) reminds boaters and anglers to clean, drain and dry their boats, trailers and gear before entering park waters as the 2026 boating season starts May 23 and runs through Oct. 31. Park officials said in a release that Yellowstone faced a growing

Pages devoted to climate change have disappeared from key Yellowstone guidebook

Pages devoted to climate change have disappeared from key Yellowstone guidebook

This story originally appeared in Mountain Journal.Yellowstone National Park visitors over the past few years have been asking park guide Leo Leckie why some Douglas-fir trees between Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower junction are turning red. Their change in color was clearly visible, but the cause wasn’t