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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“A 12-year-old Pennsylvania boy was flipped in the air by a bison near the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone this morning.
A mature bull bison, apparently annoyed at the close proximity of the boy, tossed him approximately 10 feet in the air. Witnesses said the boy was posing with members of his family within 1-2 feet [...]

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“Yellowstone’s 45th parallel sign, a popular tourist stop on the North Entrance Road, has been moved to a new location.
The 45th parallel is an imaginary line that circles the globe at the point halfway between the equator and the North Pole. This same line passes through Minneapolis-St. Paul; Ottawa, Canada; Venice, Italy; and the northern [...]

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“Visitation to Yellowstone National Park hit a new record in June, and is on a near record pace for the first six months of the year.The park recorded 612,095 recreational visits in June 2008. That’s up 2,489 visitors from June 2007, and marks only the second time in history that Yellowstone’s June visitation has topped [...]

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