Photo Gallery
About Yellowstone National Park
- Yellowstone is the first national park in the world, created by an act of Congress in 1872
- Yellowstone covers 3468 square miles or over 2.2 million acres
- The park is 5% water, 15% meadow and range, and 80% forest
- There are more geysers and hot springs in Yellowstone than in the rest of the world combined: 10,000 thermal features and over 200 active geysers
- There are approximately 59 species of mammals and 309 species of birds
- Altitude varies from 5300' at the north entrance to 12,000' at Eagle Peak on the east boundary
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Grizzly in Norris Geyser Basin
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Grizzly prints in old lakebed
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Short-tailed weasel--can eat a rabbit
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Fringed gentian--the Yellowstone Park flower
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Sulfur Buckwheat
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Blue Penstemon
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Trumpeter swan--the largest waterfowl in the world
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Yellowstone River in mist--Hayden Valley
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Cutoff Peak--from Northeast corner of Yellowstone
Web site photo credits: The National Park Service & Linda Wallace.
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