• 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

R is for River Otter

A river otter has just come out of the water with a fish on the rocky bank.

River Otters swim so fast that they can catch fish underwater. This otter caught a very big trout and now it is settling down to a fine dinner.

 

Did You Know?

Summer Crowd at Old Faithful.

At peak summer levels, 3,500 employees work for Yellowstone National Park concessioners and about 800 work for the National Park Service.