Yellowstone National Park hosted 837,499 recreational visits, a 21% increase from September 2019.
Yellowstone National Park, home of the famous geyser, had its busiest September ever, the National Park Service says.A reporter's reaction when a bison herd approaches has the internet in stitches. Yellowstone says he did the right thingThe park hosted 837,499 recreational visits, a 21% increase from September 2019.So far in 2020, the park has had 3,383,872 recreational visits, down 11% from the same period last year.The park covers 3,472 square miles in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
The park's website says:"Yellowstone National Park preserves the most extraordinary collection of hot springs, geysers, mudpots, and fumaroles on Earth. More than 10,000 hydrothermal features are found here, of which more than 500 are geysers."Other parks, including Grand Teton and Grand Canyon national parks, were closed because of the pandemic. California's wildfires forced Yosemite National Park to close.
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