Travel Guide---Yellowstone

At Yellowstone National Park Lodges, visitors’re invited to discover or rediscover the magic of the world’s first national park, Yellowstone. As proud stewards of the park and this truly extraordinary American wonder, visitors will find their ultimate Yellowstone experience—all while working to protect and preserve the park for future generations.

In the Northwest corner of Wyoming lies Yellowstone National Park, the oldest and most famous National Park in the United States. Few places on earth offer so much scenic and scientific interest in one area. Yellowstone is in the heart of the Rockies, a land of soaring mountains and broad, grassy valleys. The countryside is laced with lakes and streams of exquisite beauty.

The popular West Entrance to Yellowstone parallels the winding Madison River, a route followed by the earliest pioneers into the park. It leads to the Grand Loop Road that will take you to all of the park’s major features.

YellowStone is: 

* World's First National Park
* 2,219,789 acres (Larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined) 
* Wildlife - 7 species of ungulates (bison, moose, elk, pronghorn), 2 species of bear and 67 other mammals, 322 species of birds, 16 species of fish and of course the gray wolf.
* Plants - There are over 1,100 species of native plants, more than 200 species of exotic plants and over 400 species of thermopholes. 
* Geology - The park is home to one of the world's largest calderas with over 10,000 thermal features and more than 300 geysers. It has one of the world's largest petrifiied forests. It has over 290 waterfalls with the 308' Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River as it's showpiece.
* Yellowstone Lake is the largest (132 sq. mi.) high altitude (7,732') lake in north america.
* 9 visitor centers

* 12 campgrounds (over 2,000 campsites)