This should be an event worth attending: some of the area's top researchers and scientists -- including ichthyologists, ornithologists, mammalogists, entomologists, herpetologists and botanists -- will be gathering in Yellowstone National Park on Aug. 28-29 for the first-ever Yellowstone National Park BioBlitz, a 24-hour inventory of all living organisms.

Access to the greater Gibbon Falls area is closed effective immediately, as road construction between Norris and Madison on the Grand Loop Road forces the National Park Service to cut off access to the area. The closure will run through the entire 2009 season.

A Yellowstone Insider reader called our offices the other day with a simple request: What activities would we recommend for her upcoming trip to Yellowstone National Park, a trip with both grandparents and grandkids in tow? Her main criteria: a list of activities that would please both ends of the age spectrum. We never turn down a reasonable request for information, so here's our response.

A record number of visitors descended on Yellowstone National Park in June, pushing the annual total to over 1 million. The National Park Services says 643,844 people were in Yellowstone in June, the highest tally ever recorded, and an 8.5 percent increase over 2007.

Meals during a visit to Yellowstone National Park always require some planning. Whether you eat in one of the many restaurants, pack a car full of picnic supplies or operate with a mixture of the two approaches, dining in Yellowstone means you perform a minimum level of planning unless you want to munch on a bag of chips purchased from a General Store. Here’s a look at our 2009 dining highlights and some pieces of advice.

When you visit Yellowstone National Park, you will need to eat. It is an unavoidable fact. Therefore, for your convenience, here is a list of eateries in Yellowstone, organized by level of formality and food type. Updated for 2010.

One of the joys of wandering through Yellowstone National Park is stumbling across one of its many unique gems. True, pools, basins, mud volcanoes, and geysers are everywhere in the park. They are what helped make Yellowstone America’s first National Park. In the next few weeks we’ll be taking inside looks at gems found not that far off the beaten path. Today we’ll look at one basin that is often overlooked when stacked against all the bigger, seemingly more active basins: West Thumb Basin.

If you're heading to Yellowstone National Park over the Independence Day holiday weekend, you're in for a treat: road construction is on hold, which means you'll have few issues (past normal congestion, of course) as you drive on the popular Norris-to-Madison section.

Another reminder that those cute and cuddly bison aren't really cute and cuddly: a 50-year-old tourist from Spain was butted and tossed in the air by a bison in the Canyon area, requiring a visit to the Lake Clinic and treatment for mild injuries.

Welcome to the third version of Yellowstone Insider! You’ll find some old faces and new voices as we continue to bring you the Internet’s definitive guide to America’s oldest National Park. We think you'll be happy with the many, many changes we've made in a complete overhaul of the site.