Nature & Wildlife
10 Reasons to Visit Yellowstone National Park in Winter
Let’s start by answering the most obvious question: Yes, Yellowstone is open in the winter! In fact, some may say this is the most magical time of year to visit.
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Nature Photography
A Photographer’s Guide to Visiting Yellowstone in Winter
If Yellowstone National Park is on your bucket list, here’s a little secret – consider visiting this epic outdoor playground, full of geological wonders, natural beauty and abundant wildlife, during the winter months. Cold? Sure. Worth the extra layers? You bet. Particularly for shutterbugs, Yellowstone National Park winter visits are legendary.
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Nature & Wildlife
American Serengeti: Wildlife Wonders of Yellowstone
When wildlife enthusiast Dan Barr found out that members of one of Yellowstone’s larger wolf packs, Junction Butte, had been spotted in the national park’s remote Lamar Valley, the California resident was elated.
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Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Lost in Time in Yellowstone National Park
There are a few rare places in the world where time as a linear construct just doesn’t seem to make much sense; places where the past, present and even the future seem to be all jumbled together, like pack ice piled up along a shoreline.
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Nature & Wildlife
New Snowmobile Lottery System: Will It Alter Yellowstone’s Winter Solitude?
While anyone who has traveled to Yellowstone National Park knows that the sights alone are enough to take your breath away, I’m always struck by how unprepared I am for what I would describe as the “timeless sounds” of Yellowstone: the howls of wolves on the wind, the yips of coyotes on the hills…
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Travel Tales
Nat Hab Exclusive: Alone with the last remaining wolves of the Lamar Canyon Pack
Guest post by NHA guide, biologist, and photographer Sean Beckett The interior of Yellowstone is inaccessible in the winter without a snowmobile or a snow coach. Opting against the frigid and blustery snowmobiles, we fired up two bombardier snow coaches and headed from the relatively mild Jackson Hole north into a blizzard.