National Park News

A plan to chart the future of the Lake area of Yellowstone National Park has been released for public review.

The National Park Service (NPS) continues working on a long-term plan to guide winter use in Yellowstone National Park.

A proposal to return some cabin units in the Old Faithful area back to visitor use has been released for public review and comment.

Yellowstone National Park is waiving admission fees this weekend in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr., federal holiday.

Visitation to Yellowstone National Park in 2011 topped the 3 million mark for the fifth straight year.

The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a draft report on progress made addressing threats to Yellowstone National Park.

With significant snowfall throughout the park over the past 48 hours, Yellowstone National Park will ring in the New Year by transitioning fully to oversnow travel beginning at 7:00 a.m. Saturday, December 31.

Yellowstone National Park’s East Entrance will open to the public for the winter season as scheduled on Thursday, December 22.

The Oral History Collection at Yellowstone National Park contains recordings made by people from all walks of life who have visited the park, or worked or grown up in the area.

Yellowstone National Park will open to the public for the winter season as scheduled on December 15.

Efforts remain on track for Yellowstone National Park to open for motorized oversnow travel as scheduled on December 15.

The park is seeking to update its Fire Management Plan to reflect recent changes in federal fire policy.

Yellowstone National Park is seeking ways to restore visitor lodging while accommodating permanent and seasonal lodging for park concessioner employees in the Old Faithful area.

Yellowstone National Park’s 2011 “Natural Resource Vital Signs” report is helping park managers and scientists more fully understand the status of important ecological “health indicators.”

It was no trick that more than 175,000 visitors to Yellowstone National Park last month were treated to unseasonably beautiful fall weather, yielding the park’s second highest October visitation numbers on record.

The North and Northeast Entrances to Yellowstone National Park will offer free visitor admission on Friday, November 11 through Sunday, November 13, to honor all past and current members of the U.S. Armed Forces..

Yellowstone National Park will issue a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Friday that ensures the park opens for motorized oversnow travel as scheduled on December 15.

Roads to most of the park’s popular tourist destinations close for the season at 8:00 a.m. Monday, November 7.

A new plan to reconstruct a portion of the northern section of Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Loop Road has been approved.

A new plan designed to relieve traffic congestion and improve safety at Yellowstone National Park’s historic North Entrance has been approved.

A habituated gray wolf believed to be conditioned to human foods was killed by Yellowstone National Park staff October 8.

Rebounding from a lingering winter that included snow and ice well into May, Yellowstone National Park still managed to host more than three million visitors for its third consecutive summer season.

A grizzly bear sow and two cubs captured by Yellowstone National Park staff have been linked to the scene of the recent mauling death of a hiker in the Hayden Valley.

As the season winds down, there is still a little time to come and enjoy the park – hike, bike, drive, take photos, watch wildlife, geyser gaze, etc. Do it soon, though, as only a few facilities remain open.

National Park Service planners will implement a “One-Year Rule” for the upcoming 2011-2012 winter season, in order to allow time to better address significant public input regarding the proposed long-term regulation.

A new lightning-caused fire was discovered yesterday at 3:00 pm by the Mt. Washburn lookout station, bringing the total number of wildland fires that have burned in Yellowstone National Park to 21 this year.

Yellowstone National Park is soliciting comments for a proposed project to replace a portion of trail connecting the Upper Geyser Basin near Old Faithful to Biscuit Basin.

A report by an interagency investigation team into a July fatal bear attack in Yellowstone has been released.

This week biologists will begin an effort to restore native Westslope cutthroat trout to Goose Lake and two nearby lakes.

The Point Fire, on the eastern shore of Yellowstone Lake, has grown slowly in recent days and is now estimated at 1,800 acres.