Aug 31 2010
Crossing America 2010 - One Day in Yellowstone
We took a day to drive into Yellowstone National Park especially to see Old Faithful. We also continued on past, stopped at Biscuit Basin and the Little Firehole River, and drove a loop that brought us south along the Yellowstone River and Lake. We saw elk and bison. Amazing country.
Yellowstone facts from a recent ABC news article: "The most people in Yellowstone on any given summer day — 25,000 to 30,000 — far exceeds population estimates for the park's other large mammals.
Yellowstone is home to about that many elk during the summer. About 15,000 to 22,000 elk stick around the park during the winter. Yellowstone has approximately 3,000 bison, no more than 1,000 moose and close to 100 wolves, according to park figures.
July and August are Yellowstone's busiest months for tourism.
The park had almost 958,000 visitors in July, up 6.5 percent from July 2009, and nearly 855,000 in August, a more than 13 percent increase from a year earlier."
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