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If you will visit Yellowstone National Park this Fourth of July, plan ahead to protect yourself and this wild and awe-inspiring place. Summer is the busiest time in the park, ...

In rural Southwest Montana, a clash over tax fairness and critical services between a luxury ski community and a modest town ...

Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

Snowfall and chilly weather have turned late June into a surprising winter scene in Yellowstone and surrounding mountain areas. A late wave of winter weather from Canada dumped fresh snow across ...

Yellowstone National Park has over 1,000 miles of trails and nearly 300 designated backcountry campsites, allowing people to ...

Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see first-hand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the larger ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

Despite the impressive size of Yellowstone National Park (about 8,992 km2, or 2.2 million acres), the total surface area covered by thermal areas is only about 70 km2 (17,300 acres)—less than 1% of ...

Something is blocking it from erupting. Smoking Lids Researchers have found evidence that a giant "lid" made of magma could be stopping the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park from erupting.

The crash happened on Thursday just before 7:15 p.m. local time on a highway near Henry's Lake State Park in eastern Idaho, about 16 miles west of Yellowstone National Park.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons Standing dead trees in Yellowstone National Park are wildfires waiting to happen, according to a team of researchers that recently took stock of the park’s forested areas.