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Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872 with a signature by President Ulysses S. Grant, becoming the first national park in America. It spreads out over three states — Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho — and its the home of a great deal of fascinating wildlife — grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. You’ll find inside its boundaries such national treasures as Old Faithful Geyser, a number of other amazing geysers and hot springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

The Yellowstone region has been the home of Native Americans for at least 11,000 years; exploration of the area did not truly begin until the late 1860s, and while the U.S. Army first oversaw the park, control of the area was transferred to the National Park Service in 1917, a service that was created just a year earlier. The park is a place of intense study, with researchers examining more than a thousand archaeological sites.

The natural wonders of the park include Yellowstone Lake, one of the largest high-altitude lakes in North America, which is itself near the center of the Yellowstone Caldera, which is the largest supervolcano on the North American continent. Considered an active volcano, this caldera has erupted several times in the last two million years; most of the geothermal features in Yellowstone — Old Faithful, hot springs, and geysers — are the result of this volcanic system. The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone is also here, the first large canyon on the Yellowstone River, which is downstream from Yellowstone Falls. This canyon is about 900 feet deep and a half mile wide. The park is also a terrific place for sight-seeing, featuring hundreds of species of mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles, and offers to the visitor incredible scenery as well as opportunities to hike, camp, boat, and fish.

If you’re traveling across the country and looking for one of the best hotels America provides to its motorists, you’ll find it in West Yellowstone, Montana, at the Yellowstone Park Hotel at 201 Grizzly Avenue, just three blocks from the West Entrance of the Yellowstone National Park. By day, you can explore the park; by night, you can take advantage of 32 inch flat screen televisions and an indoor pool.

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