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Outside the Park: Accommodations

The best Yellowstone National Park experience should include one or more nights actually sleeping in the Park, whether it be a stay at the Old Faithful Inn or a night sleeping under the stars at Slough Creek or Tower Fall. But unless you’ve planned ahead months in advance, you may find yourself shut out of the most desirable locales — …

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Troubled waters for trout in Yellowstone

It’s been a hard summer so far for trout in Yellowstone National Park and the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, as warmer-than-normal water temperatures have forced National Park Service officials to close fishing on most of the park’s streams until further notice. That’s a pretty drastic act for Park officials, who realize the important of fly fishing to many Yellowstone visitors. But …

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Over the road snow season ends in Yellowstone

[Sunday, March 2, 2008] Park roads will close to snowmobiles and snowcoaches beginning March 2, from Mammoth to Norris, March 4 from Norris to Madison and Norris to Canyon, and all remaining roads from March 9. Plowing of roads will begin, as weather permits, later in March.

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Road Conditions – Early Spring

Updated Monday, March 3, 2008 [See details below the map]  ROAD CLOSURES Early Spring Road Closure 1. Yellowstone Park West Entrance: Closed to all traffic from March 9 until spring opening. South Entrance: Closed to all traffic from March 9 until spring opening. East Entrance: Closed to all traffic until spring opening. Mammoth Hot Springs: Closed to all traffic from …

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Old Faithful Inn

Old Faithful Inn

Old Faithful Inn

The most popular place to stay at Yellowstone National Park is Old Faithful Inn, opening in 1904. The iconic wooden facility is a symbol for the park; its pitched roof, wooden shingles, massive fireplace and huge lobby is instantly recognizable to millions of park visitors.

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Gateway City: Jackson

Poor, poor Wyoming. Even though it has one of the largest land areas in square miles in the United States — 97,100, to be exact — it is the least populated state in the United States, with only 509,294 residents. By that estimate, Wyoming isn’t a very nice place to live in, and definitely not a very nice place to vacation …

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Old Faithful Lodge Cabins

The Old Faithful Lodge is one of the more underrated and under-appreciated buildings in the Old Faithful complex, but it has a history that rivals many of the other buildings in Yellowstone National Park.

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Elk poaching, a federal case

[Thursday, February 28, 2008] A thirty-six year old Montana man was sentenced in federal court today for killing two bull elk in 2005 along U.S. Highway 191 in or near Yellowstone National Park. The conviction for illegal Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Transportation of Illegally Possessed Wildlife, and Unlawful Possession of Illegally Taken Wildlife carried a sentence of four years …

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How many wolves are enough / too many?

The "wolf wars" are back in federal court. This time it is a coalition of environmental and animal rights groups seeking to reverse the recent delisting of the gray wolf as an endangered species in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, and to halt state management of wolves. The argument over delisting wolves goes back years, but legal action waited until the delisting was implemented (rescinded, then re-instated...) and wolves were being killed as a result of delisting. This promises to be not just a war of words, but a legal battle of scientific data -- who's got the most persuasive science. 

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Another shot at constructing Old Faithful Visitor Center

[Thursday, March 13, 2008] The National Park Service has announced that a contract has been awarded to build the new Old Faithful Visitor Education Center to CTA Architects Engineers of Billings, Montana and Swank Enterprises of Montana, builders of the recently opened Canyon Visitor Education Center. Groundbreaking for the two-story, 26,000 square foot, $27 million building is set for May …

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