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Yellowstone, Wyoming
Yellowstone is the oldest park in the United States park drawing over 3 million visitors a year, visitors come to experience the park’s wildlife; to see grizzlies, gray wolves, and herds of buffalo, to fish legendary trout streams like the Madison and the Yellowstone River, most of all, they come to reconnect in some way with the larger-than-life landscape that existed before railroads, highways, telephones, and a host of other technologies.
Yellowstone's turbulent landscape - which remains among the most geologically active lands on the planet, with steam-spewing geysers, gurgling fumaroles, and frequent earthquakes - was protected as the world's first national park in 1872, all its major species of plants and animals are still present, famous sites include the Old Faithful geyser and the terraced wonders of Mammoth Hot Springs.
Treks around Yellowstne Park, Wyoming
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