Yellowstone of Montana
As home to 58 mammal species, 290 bird species, and 18 fish species, Yellowstone has the largest concentration of the free roaming wildlife in the earth’s global temperate zone. There are 250 geysers within the 2.2 million acres and Yellowstone is part of the most active geothermal regions on earth. Most of Yellowstone National Park sites in Wyoming. For details on visit our Wyoming tourism site where you can learn about the largest segment of Yellowstone. 
If you visit the Park during the summer months you can hike, bike, boat, fish or ride horses; during the winter months there is cross country skiing, snowmobiling, and snowcoach tours. Yellowstone has 5 entrances, 3 of which are in Montana: the North Entrance at Gardiner, the Northeast Entrance at Cooke City and the West Entrance at West Yellowstone. The Gardiner Entrance is open year round and since 1903, the Roosevelt Arch has marked its entry.
A favorite way to see Yellowstone is by taking a half or full day rafting trips down the Yellowstone, Madison or Gallatin Rivers. To secure your spot contact Yellowstone Raft Company (800-858-7781).
Cooke City not only features Yellowstone’s western entrance, but it is encompassed by the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. If you love to spend time in the magnificence of nature, then is just what you have always dreamed of! You can go hiking, horseback riding, fishing, mountain climbing or go on a pack trip. Also especially indigenous to the area, is the pink snow found in Grasshopper Glacier. Here you will see millions of grasshoppers frozen in the 80 foot cliff. The glacier, only accessible by trail with the last 2 miles on foot, is often the site of adverse weather.
The best time to visit is mid August. West Yellowstone, sometimes called the “Hub of Yellowstone Country” is the most active area of Montana’s section of the Park. Other area attractions are the seasonal Yellowstone Historic Center and the Playmill Theatre. Open year round is the Yellowstone IMAX Theatre and the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center.
www.nps.gov/yell
Photo Credits: Banner Photo by Piston9; Arch by BL Murch; West Yellowstone by Sashikanth Damaraju |
