Yellowstone National Park News
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Yellowstone visitation statistics for August 2024
September 11, 2024 | 9:08 am
Yellowstone National Park hosted 871,163 recreation visits in August 2024, up 3% from August 2023 (846,389 recreation visits). This August’s visitation showed an 5% decrease from August 2021 (921,844 recreation visits).
Tourism to Yellowstone National Park contributes $828 million to local economy
August 28, 2024 | 4:33 pm
A new National Park Service report shows that 4.5 million visitors to Yellowstone National Park in 2023 spent $623 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 8,560 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $828 million.
Update: Madison, Gibbon rivers in Yellowstone National Park now open to fishing
August 28, 2024 | 2:43 pm
Effective immediately, the Madison and Gibbon rivers in Yellowstone National Park are open to fishing. The park has lifted the fishing closures on these rivers and their associated tributaries due to cooler water temperatures. The Firehole River, being strongly influenced by geothermal features, is now open to fishing with partial restrictions. The river and its associated tributaries will be closed to fishing daily from 2 p.m. to sunrise the following day.
WARNING: Stay away from bull elk in Yellowstone National Park, especially during fall mating season
August 27, 2024 | 3:32 pm
The elk mating season, commonly referred to as the rut, has begun in Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone visitation statistics for July 2024
August 7, 2024 | 11:36 am
Yellowstone National Park hosted 992,352 recreation visits in July 2024, up 2% from July 2023 (969,692 recreation visits). This July’s visitation showed an 8% decrease from July 2021 (1,080,767 recreation visits).
VERY HIGH fire danger in Yellowstone National Park
July 25, 2024 | 2:42 pm
The parkwide fire danger level for Yellowstone is now VERY HIGH, and Stage 1 fire restrictions will go into effect Saturday, July 27.
Update on the July 23 Biscuit Basin hydrothermal explosion
July 24, 2024 | 1:37 pm
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.
National Park Service announces decision on future management of bison at Yellowstone National Park
July 24, 2024 | 11:09 am
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 based on new scientific information and circumstances that have changed since the previous EIS, completed in 2000.
Yellowstone announces lottery for 2024-2025 Non-Commercially Guided Snowmobile Access Program
July 22, 2024 | 11:05 am
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 five snowmobilers.
Yellowstone visitation statistics for June 2024
July 16, 2024 | 5:03 pm
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).