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The parkwide fire danger level for Yellowstone is now VERY HIGH, and Stage 1 fire restrictions will go into effect Saturday, July 27. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240725.htm Read more »

This is an update on the hydrothermal explosion that occurred just before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 23, in Biscuit Basin, Yellowstone National Park. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240723.htm Read more »

Today, July 24, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a decision about the future management of bison at Yellowstone National Park. The Record of Decision, a culmination of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and National Environmental Policy Act process that began in 2022, will allow the NPS to manage bison… Read more »

Effective Friday, July 26, 2024, the following Yellowstone National Park rivers and streams will close to fishing daily from 2 p.m. to sunrise the following day due to predicted warm-water temperatures and unprecedented low river flows that are lethal to trout. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/24030.htm Read more »

Beginning Thursday, Aug. 1, people may apply to the 2024-2025 winter lottery for permits to snowmobile in Yellowstone National Park without a commercial guide. Authorized in 2013, the Non-Commercially Guided Snowmobile Access Program allows permit-holders to enter the park for up to three days with a group of up to… Read more »

The park hosted 914,612 recreation visits in June 2024, up 8% from June 2023 (847,864 recreation visits). This June’s visitation showed a 3% decrease from June 2021 (938,845 recreation visits). https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/24028.htm Read more »

On Thursday, July 11 at about 10:40 a.m. a car with five occupants inadvertently drove off the roadway and into the Semi-Centennial Geyser thermal feature near Roaring Mountain between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junction in Yellowstone National Park. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240712.htm Read more »

Effective Monday, July 15, 2024, select Yellowstone National Park rivers will close to fishing due to warm water temperatures and low river flows. This closure will protect the park’s native and wild trout fisheries and remain in effect until conditions improve https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/24027.htm Read more »

The parkwide fire danger level for Yellowstone is now HIGH. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240710.htm Read more »

On the morning of July 4, Yellowstone National Park law enforcement rangers confronted an individual shooting a semi-automatic rifle toward a dining facility at Canyon Village located in the central part of the park. The shooter has been identified by the Park County, Wyoming coroner as Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, 28,… Read more »