Attractions, Geysers &
Hotels around Yellowstone

Yellowstone is the world's first national park and still its most astonishing — a 3,500-square-mile volcanic plateau holding half the planet's geysers, rainbow hot springs bigger than stadiums, a canyon with twin waterfalls, and the greatest concentration of free-roaming wildlife in the lower 48: bison herds stopping traffic, wolves in the Lamar dawn, grizzlies on the valley edges. Gateway towns ring it with lodges, outfitters, and museums — West Yellowstone, Gardiner, Cody, Jackson — and winter transforms the whole interior into a snowcoach-only kingdom of steam and frost. One park, four seasons, no equal.

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Top Yellowstone Experiences

Old Faithful & the Upper Geyser Basin
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Old Faithful & the Upper Geyser Basin

The world's most famous geyser, erupting on schedule roughly every 90 minutes — surrounded by the densest geyser field on earth, boardwalks past Morning Glory Pool, and the log cathedral of the Old Faithful Inn.

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Grand Prismatic Spring
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Grand Prismatic Spring

The planet's most psychedelic hot spring — a 370-foot rainbow of cobalt, emerald, and flame-orange microbial rings, seen from the Midway boardwalk and, essentially, from the Fairy Falls overlook above.

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Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
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Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

The park's namesake wonder — a 1,000-foot gorge of yellow, pink, and rust rock with the 308-foot Lower Falls thundering into it, framed from Artist Point and felt from the Brink, where the river vanishes under your feet.

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Lamar Valley
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Lamar Valley

America's Serengeti — the broad northeast valley where wolf packs hunt, bison herds blanket the flats, grizzlies work the edges, and dawn with a spotting scope is the best wildlife show in the hemisphere.

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Jackson Hole Aerial Tram
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Jackson Hole Aerial Tram

Big Red: a 100-passenger cabin that climbs 4,139 vertical feet in about nine minutes from Teton Village to the 10,450-foot summit of Rendezvous Peak, with waffles at Corbet's Cabin and the whole Teton Range at eye level.

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Jenny Lake
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Jenny Lake

Grand Teton's signature lake: a shuttle boat across clear water to the base of the peaks, then a short climb to Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point, or a quiet ski along the closed park road in winter.

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Where to Stay in Yellowstone

Old Faithful Inn
📍 Upper Geyser Basin (in-park)
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Old Faithful Inn

★★★★★

The world's largest log building and the national-park lodge all others copy — a 1904 lodgepole cathedral with a 76-foot lobby, stone fireplace, and the most famous geyser on earth erupting outside the front door.

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Lake Yellowstone Hotel & Cabins
📍 Yellowstone Lake north shore (in-park)
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Lake Yellowstone Hotel & Cabins

★★★★★

The park's Gilded Age grande dame — an 1891 colonnaded confection in butter yellow on the lake's north shore, restored to string-quartet elegance, with sunroom cocktails at sunset and the park's finest dining room.

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Old Faithful Snow Lodge and Cabins
📍 Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park
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Old Faithful Snow Lodge and Cabins

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The heart of winter Yellowstone: a timber lodge steps from Old Faithful, reachable only by snowcoach or snowmobile from mid-December, with ski trails out the door, a skating rink and geysers steaming in the frost.

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