Yellowstone National Park has the distinction of being the world's first national park. With an area of 3,472 sq mi (8,992 sq km), Yellowstone is the largest national park in the lower 48 states. This is an area larger than Rhode Island and...

Comprising 2.2 million acres of northwest Wyoming, with slight incursions into Montana and Idaho, Yellowstone is the oldest national park in the United States. The park's unique sights originally inspired a nation that had not even fully...

Yellowstone National Park, made into a national park on March 1, 1872, is located mostly in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho. The park was the first of its kind.[1] and is known for its wildlife and geothermal...

It's been called the "most beautiful roadway in America," a breathtaking, high-altitude byway that winds through parts of Montana and Wyoming and links tiny tourist towns to Yellowstone National Park. But the Beartooth Highway is also dangerous in places, and...

Communities that serve as gateways to the nation's national parks need to launch a "no child left inside" program to make children more comfortable with nature and encourage long-term support of wild places, Suzanne Lewis, the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, proposed....

The number of elk in the Yellowstone National Park region infected with scabies, a skin infestation caused by mites, is up this year, state wildlife officials say. The disease can be fatal, especially when an animal's health has been weakened for other reasons, such as...

A male grizzly bear relocated from the wild 12 years ago has died at the Bronx Zoo, where he was a popular attraction, zoo officials said.The 13-year-old bear named Jughead died last Friday while undergoing surgery for an abdominal abscess, said Dr. Patrick Thomas, the...