• 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

History of Administrative Development

History of Administrative Development in YNP
 
MANAGING THE MATCHLESS WONDERS

A History of Administrative Development in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1965


Historic Resource Study, Volume III
Park Administrative History, Part I

By Kiki Leigh Rydell and Mary Shivers Culpin
National Park Service, Yellowstone Center for Resources
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
YCR-CR-2006-03, 2006

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Did You Know?

Upper Geyser Basin Hydrothermal Features on a Winter Day.

Yellowstone contains approximately one-half of the world’s hydrothermal features. There are over 10,000 hydrothermal features, including over 300 geysers, in the park.