 (c)travelincousins.com 5. This National Park is also a designated World Heritage Site and designated Biosphere Reserve. 6. Yellowstone was originally nicknamed “Wonderland.”  (c)travelincousins.com 7. Yellowstone is home to more than 500 active geysers (more than half the world’s geysers). 8. The park sits atop the largest supervolcano in North America. 9. Yellowstone Lake has 131.7 sq. miles of surface area and 141 miles of shoreline. It is the largest high elevation lake in North America. 10. 80% of the land is covered by forest, 15% is grassland, and 5% is water.  (c)travelincousins.com 14. The 47-mile road east from Mammoth to Tower-Roosevelt junction and beyond to the northeast entrance to Yellowstone is the only highway in Yellowstone open through the winter. 15. Yellowstone has the largest, free-roaming herd of bison in the world. - Tanya & Elisa | 1. Yellowstone is the world's first national park. 2. The park was established on March 1, 1872. 3. The park is 96% in Wyoming, 3% in Montana, and 1% in Idaho, however when Yellowstone National Park was established, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana were not yet states. 4. At 3,472 square miles—over 2.2 million acres—Yellowstone is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.  (c)travelincousins.com 11. Painter Thomas Moran of the 1871 Hayden Expedition sold his 7’x12’ canvas painting Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone for $10,000—to Congress. It was the first landscape painting ever featured in the U.S. Senate lobby. 12. The U.S. Engineer’s Office, located kitty corner to the Visitors’ Center, was built in 1903 and was designed by the same architectural committee behind New York’s Grand Central Station. 13. Isa Lake in Yellowstone National Park is the only natural lake whose water ends up in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Straddling the continental divide at 8,262′,  (c)travelincousins.com |
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