It’s high season in Yellowstone, but it’s still possible to get out and enjoy the Park without having to share it with a gazillion other tourists and their shrieking kids. How? Go for a Yellowstone day hike.

It seems hard to believe, but 1988’s Yellowstone fires are all of sudden 30 years ago. “Sometimes it seems like 30 weeks,” Roy Renkin, a park biologist and vegetation researcher said recently.

There’s a big consolation for a long, snowy winter and a cool, wet spring in the Northern Rockies: breathtaking Yellowstone wildflowers, which are hitting their peak.

During a nearly 50-year career at Yellowstone National Park, Lee Whittlesey drew inspiration from the act of Congress establishing the National Park Service: “… to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment …

It’s not really a new year in Yellowstone until the Old Faithful Inn opens, and it opened a few weekends back on Friday, May 4.

Some interior park roads opened Friday, April 20, with locals and visitors alike getting out in some springlike weather.

It’s spring on the calendar, and nearly spring in Yellowstone National Park.

The calendar says April, but it ain’t exactly what most of us consider “spring” around the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Yellowstone Volcano Observatory scientists have confirmed that Steamboat Geyser, located in Norris Geyser Basin, erupted last week.

Assorted pets including cats and dogs. Nearly 400 hats, mostly baseball caps. Tons of sunglasses. A set of dentures. Many pillows. A walker. And, even, a toupee.