Yellowstone National Park

Using Custom Earthquakes To Define The Top Of Yellowstone’s Magma Reservoir

New research used artificial earthquakes generated by a truck with a vibrating hydraulic plate to better understand the depth and characteristics of the top of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone caldera.

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By Yellowstone Volcano Observatory - April 29th, 2025

A Day In The Park: Yellowstone National Park

Located within parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, Yellowstone National Park truly deserves the honor of being designated America’s (and the world’s) first national park. Within it’s 2.2 million acres is the world’s greatest collection of geothermal displays and such a great diversity of wildlife that the park is nicknamed “America’s Serengeti.”

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By Rebecca Latson - April 21st, 2025

Celebrating National Park Week 2025: What’s Your Plan?

It’s the start of National Park Week 2025. If you haven’t already worked up some plans to visit a national park, then this week should be the impetus you need to start formulating an idea for a trip to one of the 433 units within the National Park System.

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By Rebecca Latson - April 16th, 2025

Some Yellowstone Roads Scheduled To Open April 18

Barring a major snowstorm, a number of roads leading into Yellowstone National Park will open on Friday, April 18, at 8 a.m. local time.

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By Compiled from NPS releases - April 11th, 2025

Calling The Curious: Take A Class In Your Favorite Park This Summer

There is, near the roof of Rocky Mountain National Park, a unique landscape rarely found in the National Park System.

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By Jane Schneider - April 10th, 2025

At Yellowstone’s Edge: The Beartooth Mountains And The Stillwater Complex

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the most ancient rocks in North America—as old as 3.96 billion years in the Beartooth Mountains to the northeast of Yellowstone caldera.

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By Yellowstone Volcano Observatory - April 8th, 2025

Spectacular Waterfalls Are An Often-Hidden Gem Of Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is famous for its volcanic landscapes, erupting geysers, colorful hot springs, and abundant and diverse wildlife. The park is also unique because of the many waterfalls along its rivers and creeks that mostly form in deep gorges, where rocks with differences in hardness meet or at the edges of thick rhyolite lava flows.

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By Yellowstone Volcano Observatory - April 1st, 2025

Why Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Species Are At Risk

President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges.

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By Rita Beamish - March 29th, 2025

Photography In The National Parks: Yellowstone’s Grand Loop Road Part 2

What if you only had a day or two, to spend in Yellowstone National Park? Where would you go? What would you photograph? If you decide to travel the park’s 142-mile Grand Loop Road, a figure-eight shaped route through the park interior, you’ll see (and photograph) plenty. Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson gives you an idea of what you might capture with your camera.

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By Rebecca Latson - March 25th, 2025

What Do Volcanologists Learn From Ashfall Maps?

How do volcanologists determine the height of eruptive plumes from Yellowstone’s past explosive eruptions? Ironically, you have to dig into the ground to get the answer.

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March 25th, 2025

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