Tag: Yellowstone National Park

  • Yellowstone visitor stands inches from black bear, cubs as they attempt to cross the road

    Yellowstone visitor stands inches from black bear, cubs as they attempt to cross the road

    “The ranger said if that had been a grizzly it would have been a fatality,” says Tony Jackson of his footage filmed in Yellowstone National Park. Brown bears (which include grizzlies) and black bears do exhibit wildly different behaviors, it’s true. But the individual behavior of each bear within a…

  • Yellowstone’s June 2023 saw 61% visitation increase over 2022

    Yellowstone’s June 2023 saw 61% visitation increase over 2022

    Yellowstone National Park (YELL) hosted almost 1 million people in a single month this June, more than double the visitors from the same time last year. In total, Yellowstone saw 847,864 recreation visits in June 2023. As park officials note, this is a staggering 61% increase from June 2022. While…

  • Yellowstone bison goring results in ‘significant injuries’ to woman’s ‘chest and abdomen’

    Yellowstone bison goring results in ‘significant injuries’ to woman’s ‘chest and abdomen’

    Yellowstone National Park‘s first officially-reported bison goring of 2023 resulted in severe injuries to a 47-year-old woman from Phoenix, Arizona. An unreported May 21, 2023 incident also took place in which a woman stood directly in front of a large bison bull’s head. During footage filmed by Yellowstone visitors, her…

  • Yellowstone photos show tourists standing on Green Dragon Spring

    Yellowstone photos show tourists standing on Green Dragon Spring

    “At least their children were smart enough to stay on the paths,” says Mike Specht, the Yellowstone National Park (YELL) visitor who witnessed the incident. Specht and others looked on as two adults walked across the fragile crust surrounding Green Dragon Spring. This boiling hot spring is protected, like all…

  • Yellowstone elk surprise-charges visitors, showing importance of being wildlife aware

    Yellowstone elk surprise-charges visitors, showing importance of being wildlife aware

    A cow elk charges out from the trees to chase path-waking Yellowstone visitors in this footage from the park’s Lake Hotel. Filmed by Yellowstone National Park (YELL) visitor Audra Gessler Byer, this latest elk encounter illustrates how protective and aggressive mother elk can be this time of year. With elk…

  • Yellowstone bison stands calmly amid hundreds of visitors in latest park footage

    Yellowstone bison stands calmly amid hundreds of visitors in latest park footage

    A lone, enormous bison bull grazes calmly as hundreds of visitors walk around him in this latest glimpse at Yellowstone’s busy season. “It would be a rare day to come and spend in the park and not see a bison,” Yellowstone Ranger Beth Taylor says of our national mammal and…

  • Yellowstone ‘bison jams’ highlighted by wild NPS photo

    Yellowstone ‘bison jams’ highlighted by wild NPS photo

    “Hello there! We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty,” the National Park Service (NPS) jests of the insane Yellowstone event. The individual running NPS’ social media is, by the way, one of the best uses of our tax dollars in modern history. But there’s also an…

  • Child filmed climbing Gibbon Falls rapids in Yellowstone National Park

    Child filmed climbing Gibbon Falls rapids in Yellowstone National Park

    The latest footage out of Yellowstone National Park (YELL) shows a child climbing through the swift, cold rapids of the Gibbon River atop Gibbon Falls. Gibbon Falls is an 84-foot (25.6meter) waterfall that drops down into a caldera rim created by a volcanic eruption approx. 631,000-years-ago. And although the footage…

  • Yellowstone officials offer update on ‘major windstorm’ event

    Yellowstone officials offer update on ‘major windstorm’ event

    “Monday night’s storm event hit the Lake area very hard,” offers Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly. In the early evening of Monday, July 3, a major windstorm and rain event impacted the southern portion of Yellowstone National Park, primarily in the Lake Village area, park officials note in their…

  • Yellowstone death ruled a suicide in ongoing investigation

    Yellowstone death ruled a suicide in ongoing investigation

    Yellowstone National Park’s initial May 13, 2023 incident saw one man arrested for drug possession before a woman’s body was found inside a nearby vehicle. Yellowstone National Park (YELL) law enforcement officers responded to an incident on Craig Pass, approximately 3 miles south of Old Faithful, on the evening of…

  • South Yellowstone hit by tremendous severe storm, Lake Hotel damaged

    South Yellowstone hit by tremendous severe storm, Lake Hotel damaged

    “Everyone on our tour is safe,” Yellowstone Tour Guide‘s Dave Reeves reported as the severe storm rocked the national park’s southeast. On Monday, “While visiting the Lake Hotel, a severe thunderstorm rolled in, snapping several trees, dropping several trees onto the Lake Hotel, some cars and knocking out power,” Reeves…

  • Large Yellowstone crowd forms around mother black bear, cubs in latest park footage

    Large Yellowstone crowd forms around mother black bear, cubs in latest park footage

    Two wildlife photographers set a bad example as dozens of Yellowstone National Park visitors crowd around a mother bear and her cubs from all sides. In this latest footage out of America’s first national park, two wildlife photographers perch behind a large boulder. Around 10 yards away from them up…

  • Yellowstone Bear Biologist demonstrates proper use of bear spray

    Yellowstone Bear Biologist demonstrates proper use of bear spray

    Visiting Yellowstone National Park or any area of bear country? Learn how to properly deploy bear spray from the experts. It’s both bear season and busy season for national parks in bear country, and no park outside Alaska gives visitors access to as many bears as Yellowstone. Ample black and…

  • Immense Yellowstone bison warns tourists in close-call footage

    Immense Yellowstone bison warns tourists in close-call footage

    Tail up. Head shaking. Rapid pawing. This enormous bison bull issues every warning as Yellowstone National Park visitors stand feet away. With phones and cameras in-hand, multiple individuals are seen ignoring the bull’s first warning signs. This is unsurprising, unfortunately, given these visitors’ willingness to stand so close to wild…

  • Yellowstone tourists force bear into traffic, break national park laws

    Yellowstone tourists force bear into traffic, break national park laws

    Recent footage from Yellowstone National Park shows multiple individuals crowing a young bear into traffic while attempting photos. Most of us know – especially Outsiders – that it is illegal to approach wildlife while visiting Yellowstone or any national park. Many also enter these wide open spaces without this knowledge,…

  • Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel to open for first time since 2022 flood

    Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel to open for first time since 2022 flood

    Yellowstone National Park (YELL) visitors will be able to book and stay in the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Cabins starting July 1, 2023. America’s first national park has done a tremendous job with their flood recovery. In June 2022, unprecedented rainfall and snowmelt caused severe damage to the North…

  • Yellowstone tourists filmed illegally crossing Grand Prismatic Spring

    Yellowstone tourists filmed illegally crossing Grand Prismatic Spring

    Throughout Yellowstone’s recorded history, over 20 people have died within the national park’s hydrothermal features. Many have fallen into the acidic, boiling waters below while doing exactly what this visitor is filmed doing: walking across a landscape that is clearly marked by warning and do not enter signs. The incident,…

  • Train derails into Yellowstone River, spilling ‘hazmat’ material

    Train derails into Yellowstone River, spilling ‘hazmat’ material

    Eight rail cars have crashed into the Yellowstone River north of the national park, the fifth derailment in Montana this year. “This morning, at approximately 6:45 a.m. MDT, a portion of a train traveling westbound near Reed Point derailed while traversing a bridge over the Yellowstone,” Montana Rail Link announces…

  • Yellowstone officials conclude bear harassment investigation

    Yellowstone officials conclude bear harassment investigation

    “The park takes all reports of animal harassment very seriously,” Yellowstone National Park officials update to Outsider via email. Yellowstone’s 2023 busy season has been unprecedented as far as wildlife harassment. The park released a lengthy plea to the public asking for everyone to respect animals and regulations due to a cluster…

  • Yellowstone visitor walks child to edge of 300 ft. Lower Falls, sparks outrage

    Yellowstone visitor walks child to edge of 300 ft. Lower Falls, sparks outrage

    The child is seen resisting before the woman continues to lead them to the top edge of Lower Falls, the tallest and most powerful waterfall in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone regulations require all visitors to “Stay behind fencing, guard rails, and ledges at all times” for a reason. More people…

  • Yellowstone tourist puts hand, foot into scalding hydrothermal feature in alarming footage

    Yellowstone tourist puts hand, foot into scalding hydrothermal feature in alarming footage

    In the video, which just hit hours ago, a Yellowstone National Park tourist places her hand and foot into the water of a scalding hydrothermal feature as onlookers gasp. Filmed by Gary Mackenzie Tuesday, alarming footage shows two visitors approaching Silex Spring. The hydrothermal feature sits in a natural indentation…

  • Yellowstone bison rescue lone calf from wolf attack in ‘incredible’ footage

    Yellowstone bison rescue lone calf from wolf attack in ‘incredible’ footage

    While filming in Yellowstone National Park, a wolf tracker captured the heart-stopping moment when two wolves attacked a lone bison calf. Just when the wolves thought they had successfully snagged their next meal, however, two adult bison charged to the rescue. In the footage posted by Yellowstone guide Michael Sypniewski,…

  • Yellowstone footage shows true size of bison as visitors stand feet away

    Yellowstone footage shows true size of bison as visitors stand feet away

    “Yellowstone is not a zoo,” the popular Tourons Instagram page captions of the footage as a gaggle of visitors stand mere feet from a giant bison bull. It truly is beginning to feel like “another day, another touron” around here, isn’t it? This is Yellowstone National Park‘s reality now. It…

  • One year ago today, the Historic Yellowstone Flood changed the national park forever

    One year ago today, the Historic Yellowstone Flood changed the national park forever

    “One year ago today, our team faced one of the most significant challenges in Yellowstone’s history,” park officials begin in their memorial message. “After receiving a combined 7.5-9.5 inches of rain and snowmelt in 24 hours, flooding destroyed park roads, wastewater infrastructure, backcountry trails and bridges, power systems, and employee…

  • ‘Tourons’ approach immense bison bulls for photos in Yellowstone

    ‘Tourons’ approach immense bison bulls for photos in Yellowstone

    The hits just keep on coming. Thankfully for these Yellowstone “tourons,” no actual “hits” came courtesy of these massive bison bulls, however. And it’s a good thing they didn’t. At 2,000+ pounds, bulls of this size send each other flying regularly with minimal effort. Which is why millions visit Yellowstone…