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Explore the park when it becomes fresh and new with baby animals running alongside their moms and waterfalls thawing.

Just 2 blocks from Yellowstone National Park’s West Entrance, Gray Wolf Inn and Suites is the perfect headquarters for your Yellowstone adventure. 

Yellowstone is Earth's largest active geyser field with famous thermal features such as Old Faithful, Morning Glory Pool and the colorful Grand Prismatic.

When you’re tired from a long day of sightseeing, unwind with a dip in one of the region’s many hot springs and pools.

Raft Wyoming's Snake River for thrilling whitewater in Jackson Hole and family-friendly scenic float trips just south of Grand Teton National Park.

Enjoy five days in 2023 when national park entrance is free.

One of four Town Square Inns. With 400 rooms and cabins combined, you have more options to meet your style and budget than any other hotelier in town.

Find out what happened to Yellowstone's Boiling River during the flood of June 2022.

Get updated on which areas of Yellowstone are open after the June 2022 flood.

Find ghost towns that will show you what life was like in the 1800s in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in the greater Yellowstone National Park area.

The greater Yellowstone region boasts several world-class mountain resorts.

Smoking is permitted only inside vehicles and designated areas. It's forbidden in thermal and natural areas. Boom!

Located an hour from the park, Yellowstone Regional Airport in Cody is the year-round aviation gateway to America’s first national park and northwest Wyoming.

Stay a mile from the park entrance.

Today, it would be unheard of for people to intentionally feed bears but in the early 1900s it was common practice.

A 1894 photo of Yellowstone soldiers posing with bison killed by a poacher led to national public outcry and spurred Congress to give the Army the power to prosecute those who killed wildlife within the park.

See wildlife on your way to or from the park.

You wouldn’t believe the strange objects tourists have thrown into Yellowstone’s geysers. Here are some of the oddest and most damaging.

Wyoming is home to the nation’s second-largest wild horse population

Drive yourself through Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and through Yellowstone on a wildlife safari to search for grizzly bears, moose, elk, eagles and more.

Enjoy full services close to the national park's east side.

Located in the northeastern part of Yellowstone near Tower Junction, the fall plunges a stunning 132 feet.

Congratulations to Albert Moss of Oshkosh, Wis., Grand Prize winner of the Yellowstone Road Trip vacation. Albert chose the Chicago route. See all of 2022 winners and previous winners at the bottom of the page.

Our list of top Yellowstone winter activities includes watching wildlife, swimming in hot springs, eating waffles and taking exhilarating rides.

Here are Grand Teton National Park's entrances that are open in winter to how to get there.

See them at Mammoth Hot Springs and Lamar Valley inside Yellowstone and at the gateway town of Gardiner, Montana.

Well-appointed rooms, free WiFi, complimentary continental breakfast, a heated indoor swimming pool/hot tub are just a few comforts you’ll enjoy at the Yellowstone Park Hotel.

Open year-round and clustered in five distinct camp settings, this 50-cabin property in the heart of West Yellowstone provides a sense of community without compromising privacy. 

One call and your vacation is planned.

Six on the way and two inside Yellowstone National Park

Experience the past in the luxury of today.

See elk grazing around the travertine terraces from the hotel.

Stay at one of the most famous places in Yellowstone next to Old Faithful. Seven stories high, it's predominant feature is its gabled, shingled roof.

There are few places in the world where you can enjoy an elegant breakfast while watching bison roam outside your restaurant window.

All you need to know about Yellowstone bears and their winter slumber.

Bears climb high above timberline in Yellowstone National Park to feed on moths that come from farmland many miles away.

You know what may have saved a 10-year-old hiker's life? His parents had bear spray.

Pull off I-80 at Rock Springs and Green River to uncover the mesmerizing Killpecker Sand Dunes and Flaming Gorge

Whitewater rafting is a fantastic way to spend time with family and friends in the great outdoors near Yellowstone. Raft the longest free-flowing river in America, the Yellowstone River, or take a tour through Yellowstone on horseback.

Get the official Yellowstone map before you enter the park.

Great for Trip Planning

Great for trip planning

Great for trip planning

From day hikes to multi-day hiking and lodging adventures

No other activity fulfills the Western dream for families visiting this region like a horseback ride.

All together there are approximately 75 different packs in the greater Yellowstone region.

Here are the numbers. The grizzly population beat all odds after teetering on the brink of extinction. In Yellowstone area, it grew from 136 bears in 1975 to around 700 in 2019.

With 400 rooms and cabins combined, you have more options to meet your style and budget than any other hotelier in town. It's one of four Town Square Inns.

Sleep in the heart of the Wind River Indian Reservation and enjoy the indoor Fundome with an indoor pool, exercise room, QT’s Restaurant and Bottoms Up Lounge.

Stay less than an hour from Yellowstone's East Entrance. It's a quick trip to Yellowstone Lake, giant waterfalls and the geysers at West Thumb.

These 83 historic cabins maintain the exterior historic cowboy hand hewn log; the interior is a complete, full service non-smoking hotel room.

One of four Town Square Inns. With 400 rooms and cabins combined, you have more options to meet your style and budget than any other hotelier in town.

One of four Town Square Inns. With 400 rooms and cabins combined, you have more options to meet your style and budget than any other hotelier in town.

Get a free annual entry pass to more than 2,000 federal recreation areas, including national parks if you are in the 4th grade in the United States.

Wildlife and scenic views covered with magical snow in Yellowstone

Take a cross-country ski tour of Yellowstone, or go it on your own on these three trails that range from easy to difficult.

Despite its name, the Old Faithful Snow Lodge & Cabins is open both in winter and in summer. Winter finds the Snow Lodge in its element, while summer visitors enjoy its laid-back pace and proximity to Old Faithful and its world-famous geyser basin. 

About 800 moose inhabit the southern part of Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park and surrounding national forests.

Located in the heart of the beautiful Gallatin Valley, BZN is the only airport serving as a year-round gateway for two Yellowstone National Park entrances.

Gatherings across the West celebrate the heritage and history of ranching, cowboys, western music and the traditions of the rural West.

Hear the park

Plan your trip to the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota

Is the stone a fake or does it mean Colter was the first Yellowstone explorer? Find out more and about the movie inspired by Colter's run from Blackfeet Indians.

The suspect who murdered three people and placed them in the Snake River in the late 1800s was never convicted.

Are the lake sounds ghosts? Or are they just air in underwater caverns?

Bears raid squirrel caches of stored whitebark pine nuts in the fall.

Lucky you—with up to a week in the park, you can mix and match your favorite activities in and around Yellowstone for an unforgettable vacation.

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See an incredible waterfall and two geysers along this hike starting near the Grand Prismatic Hot Spring off the Grand Loop Road.

Located at the heart of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the Rockefeller Parkway connects Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.

Documentaries aside, movies about Yellowstone National Park tend to focus on fiery natural disasters.

Yellowstone’s plumbing system is no larger - nor closer to erupting - than before but now we have advanced techniques to map the system.

Stay in rustic homes, log cabins, luxury accommodations, with a clubhouse, swimming pool, and everything in between.

Stay on your way from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Yellowstone National Park.

If you're heading to Yellowstone this summer via Idaho, be sure to stop at the Annual Shoshone-Banncock Festival in August.

Waterfalls in the Yellowstone Park area are abundant. There are close to 300 Yellowstone waterfalls.

Things will die off. Other things will come in. Yellowstone could go from a forest to a sagebrush prairie. Draught could affect the geysers.

Summer thunderstorms may be vital to helping the park’s ecosystem thrive, but the lightning can prove perilous.