Yellowstone, the first national park in the
world, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1872 and has welcomed
millions of visitors in the 139 years since. Last year, Yellowstone
recorded its highest number of visitors ever, as some 3.6 million people
passed through its gates. Its well-known geothermal features --
geysers, hot springs, and fumaroles -- owe their existence to the
massive Yellowstone Caldera, a 45-mile-wide volcanic system beneath the
park. Tourists are also drawn to Yellowstone's hundreds of species of
wildlife, massive waterfalls, and incredible vistas. Collected below are
a few recent views of Yellowstone National Park. [41 photos]
A rainbow appears at the base of the Yellowstone River Lower Falls in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, on June 21, 2011. (Reuters/Jim Urquhart)
A coyote hunts in a the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, on June 20, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) # 
A tree sits on a submerged island in Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, on June 21, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Tourists watch the "Old Faithful" geyser, which erupts on average every
90 minutes, in Yellowstone National Park, on June 1, 2011.
(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
A herd of elk travels through the Hayden Valley in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, on June 21, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A blue-billed ruddy duck lands in Floating Island Lake in Yellowstone National Park, on June 24, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Grizzly bear cubs play on the snow in the Hayden Valley in Yellowstone
National Park, on June 24, 2011. Picture taken June 24, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
View of the "Morning Glory" hot spring with its unique colors caused by
brown, orange and yellow algae-like bacteria that thrive in the cooling
water, turning the vivid aqua-blue to a murkier greenish brown, in
Yellowstone National Park, on June 2, 2011.
(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
The Grand Prismatic Spring, the largest in the United States and third
largest in the world, in Yellowstone National Park, photographed on June
22, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
The view of the Absaroka Mountain Range of the north eastern stretch of
park at sunrise in Yellowstone National Park, on June 22, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Bison swim across the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, on June 21, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A bison emerges after swimming across the Yellowstone River, on June 21, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Visitors watch for wolves in the Hayden Valley in Yellowstone National Park, on June 20, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A Chipmunk stretches while begging for food in Yellowstone National Park, on June 2, 2011.
(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
Trees line the bank of the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, on June 21, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A fly fisherman on the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, on June 21, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A wolf walks with a pair of elk legs in the Hayden Valley, after
killing and eating the elk, in Yellowstone National Park, on June 20,
2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
The Grand Prismatic Spring, in Yellowstone National Park, photographed on June 22, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A closer view of Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring. Picture taken June 22, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A stream meanders through the Hayden Valley in Yellowstone National Park, on June 21, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A black bear swims in Rainy Lake, near Tower Falls, in Yellowstone National Park, on June 20, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Steam rises from geysers and thermal features in the Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park, on June 23, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Michael Smith, center, prepares dinner for son Parker Smith, left, and
wife Stacy Smith, right, at their camp site near Norris in Yellowstone
National Park, on June 23, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Old Faithful Geyser erupts in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, on June 22, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A herd of bison grazes in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, on June 20, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
The shadow of a pine tree on a eroding cliff face composed of columnar
basalt, near Tower Falls, in Yellowstone National Park, on June 22,
2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A bull elk with velvet still on its antlers grazes near Madison in Yellowstone National Park, on June 19, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
View of the Lower Falls at the Yellowstone Grand Canyon in the Yellowstone National Park, on June 2, 2011.
(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
People stand at the brink of the 93-meter tall Yellowstone River Lower Falls in Yellowstone National Park, on June 24, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A bison rubs scratches itself against a fire hydrant to help remove
molting fur, outside the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone
National Park, on May 15, 2011.
(Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) #
Water flows on the ever changing travertine-depositing Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, on June 22, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A calf in a herd of bison in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National
Park, on June 22, 2011. On average over 3,000 bison live in the park.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A gray wolf and its nursing pups are pictured in Yellowstone National
Park in this photograph obtained on May 4, 2011. Federal protections for
some 1,200 gray wolves in Montana and Idaho officially ended on May 5,
under unprecedented legislation passed by Congress last month removing
them from the endangered species list.
(Reuters/National Park Service) #
Silica from geysers (front) and the partially frozen Yellowstone Lake
(back) at the West Thumb Geyser Basin in the Yellowstone National Park,
on June 2, 2011.
(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
A black bear walks across a meadow near Rainy Lake in Yellowstone National Park, on June 20, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Sunset Lake hot spring, lined with unique colors caused by multicolored
algae-like bacteria called thermophiles that thrive in the cooling
water, turning the vivid aqua-blues to a murkier greenish brown.
Photographed in Yellowstone National Park, on June 1, 2011.
(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
Boiling mud and water in Yellowstone National Park, on June 2, 2011.
(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
A night exposure of Old Faithful Geyser erupting in Yellowstone National Park, on June 23, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A fox hunts near Tower Falls in Yellowstone National Park, on June 24, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
Boulders deposited long ago by glaciers dot the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, photographed on June 23, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
A black bear runs across a road bridge spanning the Yellowstone River
near Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, on June 24, 2011.
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart) #
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