Yellowstones northern region may be closed for the 2022 summer season after damage from flooding.
Accessible areas include Old Faithful, Madison, Grant Village, Lake Village, Canyon Village and Norris.
Even numbers may visit on even days.
Personalized plates with all letters are in the odd group.
Note: Visitors with proof of overnight reservations are free to enter on any day of the month.
For updates and alerts, visitnps.govor call the road report at 307-344-2117.
People found these descriptions so fantastical they jokingly called this magical land Colter’s Hell.
Its density and diversity of wildlife adds to Yellowstone’s appeal.
The two nearest large cities with international airports are hours away by car.
Salt Lake City is 330 miles south; Denver, 506 miles southeast.
The 96-mile Lower Loop hits Grand Prismatic Spring, Hayden Valley and Old Faithful, among other sites.
The 142-mile Upper Loop takes you to the Lamar Valley, Mammoth Hot Springs and Mount Washburn.
Most pullouts and parking areas have vault toilets.
All Yellowstone roads are open for visitors cars in summer.
Year-round there is no cell service, although most park hotels and inns offer Wi-Fi in public areas.
The boardwalks also have benches for resting.
Where to Stay and Eat
Theplace to bed down at night in Yellowstone?
In 1903, he led a redesign of the 1891 building.
For a bit of wilderness sophistication, stop by one of the hotel’s afternoon piano concerts.
Twelve campgrounds with more than 2,000 campsites are tucked into the park’s pine forests.
Five take reservations, the rest are first-come, first-served.
Only the Fishing Bridge RV Park, on the Lower Loop’s eastern side, has RV hook-ups.
Nightly permits range from $27 to $32.
To get even closer to nature, the park also has 300 backcountry campsites.
You don’t come to Yellowstone to eat.
(Almost every lodging facility has an upscale restaurant and at least one casual one.)
For something sweet, you might’t beat Wilcoxson’s Ice Cream, a Yellowstone delight since 1927.
Most of the park’s general stores stock it.
Two standout flavors: Huckleberry and Moose Tracks, vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups and fudge.
