Yellowstone National Park's network of hot springs, pools, and geysers are one of its main attractions, and are the reason the park was first created, but despite the best efforts of Park Rangers, ...

A deer searches for food on July 9, 2024, at Yellowstone National Park. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) The Yellowstone region today is wonderland. It is full of spectacular geysers and ...

Visit Yellowstone National Park, our first and one of the most visited national parks. Yellowstone National Park is our first, and one of the most visited national parks. In winter, access is limited, ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Lincoln, Montana, on July 6, 2017, followed by a 3.0 quake in roughly the same area on July 11 — and several aftershocks in between — finds people focused once ...

Spanning Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field is a hotspot for seismic activity. Between May ...

My friend Melanie loves to watch the Discovery Channel and share what she has watched with others. The problem is she can never get the story straight. Her latest tale is about Yellowstone Park ...

Yellowstone National Park visitors were startled last month by an unexpectedly fierce hydrothermal explosion – an eruption of underground hot water – that spewed steam, boiling water, mud, and ...

Looking ahead Speculation about whether the Yellowstone supervolcano is overdue for another massive explosion is downplayed by Smith. He said the hotspot has run into the colder, thicker North ...

One of Idaho’s natural gems is on the verge of being marred forever by development aimed at the ultra-wealthy. The caldera — a 50-mile-wide volcanic crater — is the remnant of a pair of massive ...

During about 4–7 million years ago, the Yellowstone hotspot was located under southeastern Idaho, feeding eruptions occurring from the Heise volcanic field. That sequence included multiple large ...