It is tempting to think of Yellowstone National Park as a huge drive-thru zoo, a sort of San Diego Wild Animal Park writ large. Park your vehicle and you’ll soon discover – as my wife, infant son, mom and dad did this past spring – that there is no better way to experience Greater Yellowstone [...]

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On the heels of reports of a grizzly bear crawling into bed with campers just outside of Yellowstone National Park’s northeast entrance last week,  the second black bear within the past two weeks was put down by Yellowstone park rangers.
[Open a Google map of the incident location.]
After one of the harshest winters in a decade [...]

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[Shoreline of Phelps Lake in LSR Preserve, Grand Teton NP / NPS photo]
A June 21 news update from the National Park Service (NPS). Stay tuned for more on the trails in this wonderful new addition to Grand Teton National Park, which I recently had the pleasure of exploring with my family while researching for the [...]

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