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Yellowstone National Park Recreation
Yellowstone National Park Recreation
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Updated: Mar 20, 2009
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Category: Park/Wilderness/Nature
City: Yellowstone National Park

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Established in 1872, Yellowstone is the world's first national park, an international symbol of natural preservation and World Heritage Site. Located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, encompassing 3,472 square miles of mountain wild land, and preserves abundant and diverse wildlife in one of the largest remaining intact wild ecosystems on Earth. Protecting the gray wolf, grizzly bear, bald eagle and lynx, home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of elk and the only place in the U.S. where bison have existed in the wild since primitive times. It contains the world's most extraordinary collection of geysers and hot springs, the site of the largest volcanic eruptions in the world, the spectacular Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and the largest lake above 7,000 feet in North America. Cultural and historic resources abound with more than 1,100 archeological sites, a museum collection of more than 379,000 cultural objects and natural science specimens and thousands of irreplaceable photographs and historic documents.

 

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www.travelyellowstone.com
National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Yellowstone National Park, WY, 82190. Park County, United States
(P) 307-344-7381 (E) yell_visitor_services@nps.gov
Directions:
From Cody: Hwy. 14/16 W. From Jackson: Hwy. 89/287 N. From Livingston or Gardiner, Montana: Hwy. 89 S. From West Yellowstone, Montana or Idaho: Hwy. 20 E.
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