At the end of the day, President Barack Obama and his family did the things virtually everyone else wants to do when they visit Yellowstone National Park: do a little fishing, visit Old Faithful, and get away from it all.
The last of three free-admission weekends in Yellowstone National Park is scheduled for this weekend, as the National Park Service winds up an ambitious promotion of the National Park system.
Yellowstone National Park should once again be jammed, thanks to the third free-admission weekend of the summer. But chances are pretty good very few of the visitors will have any interaction with President Barack Obama and his family, as his brief Saturday visit is being billed as a private event for the First Family.
A reader writes: I am looking for a good plan while in Yellowstone, entering at the West Entrance. We are staying two nights at Old Faithful Inn, two nights at Canyon, and heading to Jackson for two nights. We would like a plan that is not totally hectic, would like to do some easy hiking, a boat ride on the lake, horseback riding. Can you help?
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A panel of reps from state and federal agencies is recommending more effort be made to haze wayward Yellowstone National Park bison back into the Park, rather than slaughter them, as an effort is made to create more flexible guidelines in bison management.
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We've been warned for years that global warming could change the face of Yellowstone National Park, and the prediction has already come true when it comes to grizzlies. Now, however, we have an entire species threatened by the changing climate: the pika.
President Barack Obama and his family will be visiting Yellowstone National Park on Aug. 15 after a visit to Bozeman as part of his summer vacation.
Low gas prices and the affordability of a trip to Yellowstone National Park fueled a record-setting month in American's oldest national park -- by a huge margin. Over 900,000 people entered Yellowstone in July; up 11.4 percent from the same month in 2008, and up over the previous all time record of 847,000 visitors set in July 1995.
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They caused quite the stir after setting up shop near Mammoth Hot Springs, but the four wolves who caused some consternation for National Park Service officials have turned into model citizens in the Hayden Valley area -- after some "teaching" by Park officials.
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