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Migratory Bird Day To Be Marked In Yellowstone National Park With Birding Events

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 15, 2013 - 1:52am
Migratory Bird Day will be marked this Saturday in Yellowstone National Park, where rangers will take you birding and staff from the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center will teach you about raptors seen in the park.

Secret Sleeps, Tips For Snagging A National Park Campsite This Summer

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 12, 2013 - 1:38am
There is nothing as traditional as camping out in the national parks for summer vacation. Reserving a campsite on www.recreation.gov can lock in a site long before you hit the road, but sometimes you just don’t get around to doing that. So what to do?

South Entrance To Yellowstone National Park Opens

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 10, 2013 - 9:18am
The early birds were ready and waiting this morning when the South Entrance to Yellowstone National Park opened for the season.

Yellowstone National Park's East Entrance To Open Friday

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 2, 2013 - 9:50am
The East Entrance to Yellowstone National Park will open for the season Friday as originally scheduled, according to park officials.

National Parks Traveler's Essential Friends + Gateways

Submitted by NPT Staff on May 1, 2013 - 2:10am
Traveler's 2nd Annual Essential Friends + Gateways publication, a collaboration between the Traveler and a core group of national park foundations, cooperating associations, trusts, friends groups, and gateway communities, is aimed at enhancing and furthering the now nationally significant role of these organizations and entities in the preservation and enjoyment of our parks.

Snowplows From Wyoming, National Park Service, Bust Through Drifts In Yellowstone National Park

Submitted by NPT Staff on April 30, 2013 - 1:30am
It wasn't exactly like the meeting of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit in 1869, but there still was plenty of celebrating when snowplows from the state of Wyoming and the National Park Service met near Grant Village.

Yellowstone, Land Of Wonders: Promenade In North America's National Park

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 26, 2013 - 2:00am
Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America
If you, too, have paused before an faded and worn map of Yellowstone and wondered the same, then Yellowstone, Land Of Wonders: Promenade in North America's National Park is for you. But not only does this travelogue carry you back to the Yellowstone of 1883, but it's cast through the eyes of a Belgian writer who spent 10 days in the park that summer.

Traveler's Essential Friends + Gateways Initiative Celebrates National Parks

Submitted by NPT Staff on April 22, 2013 - 1:34am
Just in time for National Park Week -- Traveler's 2013 magazine Essential Friends + Gateways! Flip through 50+ pages of full-color features celebrating national parks, their increasingly indispensable friends' groups—along with great park gateways and the local insight and travel tips you need to savor summer in the country's top national parks.

Black Sand Basin Access In Yellowstone National Park Temporarily Closed For Boardwalk Repairs

Submitted by NPT Staff on April 21, 2013 - 1:56am
Access to Yellowstone National Park’s Black Sand Basin will be temporarily closed until at least the Memorial Day weekend while maintenance crews replace and reroute a section of boardwalk that has been damaged by the area’s thermal features.

Yellowstone Park Foundation Provides $600,000 To National Park For Projects

Submitted by NPT Staff on April 18, 2013 - 1:53am
Sequestration. Budget cuts. Tough times for America’s most cherished places – its national parks. For Yellowstone National Park, a bit of relief from the fiscal hard times is coming from the Yellowstone Park Foundation, which is underwriting $600,000 worth of projects in the park this year.