Sitting in the heart of Yellowstone's West Thumb area is Yellowstone Lake, the park's largest body of water and the largest high-elevation lake above 7,000 feet in North America. The lake is 20 ...

Yellowstone National Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why—the dynamic landscape contains a variety of geological wonders that are not easily seen elsewhere.

Lewis Lake Campground is an 85-site campground located in the southern portion of Yellowstone National Park. It is the closest campground to the southern entrance. Lewis Lake is named after ...

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely to America’s first national park ... and in Yellowstone Lake, by non-native lake ...

Yellowstone National Park's nearly 3,500 ... in the northwest corner of Wyoming. The park is divided into eight areas: Canyon Village; Fishing Bridge, Lake Village and Bridge Bay; Madison and ...

On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating Yellowstone Park, the first national park in the history of the world. Despite the fact that the new national park comprised ...