• Visitors stand on the boardwalk of Grand Prismatic, the park's largest hot spring which is ringed with orange, brown and yellow runoff channels.

    Yellowstone

    National Park ID,MT,WY

G is for Grizzly Bear

A grizzly bear by a cliff.

When you hike in Yellowstone it is smart to wear a bell or to sing while walking. That way if there is a grizzly bear around, he will know you are coming and won't be startled.

 

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Did You Know?

Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988

The 1988 fires affected 793,880 acres or 36 percent of the park. Five fires burned into the park that year from adjacent public lands. The largest, the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette. It burned more than 410,000 acres.