A must-do destination for animal lovers, write Simon & Susan Veness Sitting on the porch of the rustic Lake Village Lodge on ...

This immense state is home to approximately 64 well-preserved state and national parks, with one U.S. national park ... of the Yellowstone River and surrounded by the pristine Absaroka Mountains ...

The canyon is anywhere from 800 to 1,200 feet deep and features multiple falls that cascade down the Yellowstone River, including ... Village area and one of the park's most popular hiking spots.

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely to America’s first national park ... This bison drowned in the Yellowstone River ...

In 1872, when Congress established the world’s first national park near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River, the principal ... (whose scientific name is Bison bison) could possibly disappear.