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Yellowstone National Park News

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  • Yellowstone visitation statistics for May 2025

    June 11, 2025 | 4:16 pm

    Yellowstone National Park hosted 566,363 recreation visits in May 2025, up 8% from May 2024 (522,450 recreation visits).

    Read more at nps.gov


  • Man gored by bison June 10 in Yellowstone National Park

    June 10, 2025 | 2:37 pm

    On June 10, a 30-year-old man from Randolph, New Jersey, was injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park.

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  • First confirmed 2025 wildland fire in Yellowstone National Park

    May 28, 2025 | 12:41 pm

    On Monday May 26, the first confirmed wildland fire of the season in Yellowstone National Park was detected by hikers on the Bighorn Pass Trail.

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  • Top 10 things to know about visiting Yellowstone National Park during the 2025 summer season

    May 21, 2025 | 12:24 pm

    If you plan to travel to Yellowstone National Park this summer, plan ahead to protect yourself and this wild and awe-inspiring place.

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  • Food-conditioned grizzly bear trapped and killed in Yellowstone National Park

    May 15, 2025 | 2:31 pm

    Yellowstone National Park staff trapped and killed an 11-year-old male grizzly bear on May 14 after the bear repeatedly sought out human food sources in developed areas of the park.

    Read more at nps.gov


  • Man gored by bison in Yellowstone National Park

    May 7, 2025 | 9:06 am

    On May 4, 2025, a 47-year-old man from Cape Coral, Florida, was injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park.

    Read more at nps.gov


  • Select Yellowstone National Park entrances and roads open to public April 18

    April 10, 2025 | 11:24 am

    Beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, April 18, 2025, select entrances and roads in Yellowstone National Park will open for the summer season, weather permitting, as part of the annual spring opening.

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  • Yellowstone National Park's winter season begins Dec. 15, 2024

    December 10, 2024 | 3:40 pm

    Yellowstone National Park’s winter season begins Sunday, Dec. 15. Annually from mid-December until mid-March, visitors can travel most of the park’s roads from the West, South, East and North entrances by approved commercially guided snowmobiles and snowcoaches and via the non-commercially guided snowmobile access program.

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  • Yellowstone visitation statistics for October 2024

    November 14, 2024 | 10:31 am

    Yellowstone National Park hosted 346,025 recreation visits in October 2024. This is a 16% increase from October 2023 (299,127 recreational visits). This October’s visitation showed a 9% increase from October 2021 (316,662 recreation visits).

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  • Public input sought on proposal to improve Yellowstone National Park’s Northeast Entrance Road

    October 29, 2024 | 11:54 am

    The National Park Service, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, seeks public comment on a proposal to significantly improve 27 miles of the Northeast Entrance Road between Tower Junction and Yellowstone National Park’s Northeast Entrance.

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