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Start planning your Montana vacation today with our free 12-page trip planning guide. It includes an overview map and information about park entrances, where to stay and what to do.

Get your vacation packet stuffed full of information about the park and from our vacation partners. Includes fun road trips and maps.

From big game hunting to fishing, camping, biking, hiking and skiing, take advantage of the outdoor recreation opportunities in the beautiful Judith Basin.

2-6 bedroom vacation rentals close to Yellowstone National Park's west entrance near Big Sky Montana. Affordable luxury.

Start planning your South Dakota vacation today with our 10-page trip planner with a general area map and info about parks, where to stay and what to do..

Yellowstone wolves are causing a tropic cascade of ecological change, including helping to increase beaver populations and bring back aspen, and vegetation.

Grab a paddle, hop in a kayak, and slip away on Yellowstone Lake or Jackson Lake. Visit lakeside geysers, take in the majestic Tetons, and witness wildlife.

Start planning your winter vacation today with our free 17-page trip planner with info about winter activities and logistics for the greater Yellowstone area.

Chimani launches an expanded perks benefit for national parks visitors. It Includes all 60 national park guides, offline maps and $2,500 in savings.

World-class fly-fishing is not the only game in town. Two reservoirs provide year-round fishing opportunities for record-size walleye, trout, and carp.

Enter Dec 20, 2018 through Feb 26, 2019 to win an adventure from one of four launching points ending with a 3-day guided tour and lodging in Yellowstone.

During the winter season, buffalo head to lower ground in the North area of Yellowstone. Watch the video below to see how bison shovel snow with their heads to reveal grass underneath.

Find out exactly how to get to Yellowstone's Boiling River and the rules and regulation for this hot spring near the Mammoth area of the park.

Love to take photos in national parks? Whether it’s a landscape, a wildlife pic, or a Milky Way shot, send it our way. You could win a Tamron camera lens!

Charles Cook explored the area in 1869, and is credited with discovering the canyon. The canyon, located below Lower Falls, is in a former geyser basin created by rhyolite lava flows.

Pastel colors mark the locations of hot springs and steam vents in the canyon walls. Upwardly percolating fluids have altered the chemistry of the rocks.

West Yellowstone is called "The Snowmobile Capital of the World." Explore The Continental Divide Snowmobile Trail, phenomenal views and backcountry powder.

While snowmobiling in Yellowstone during winter is a popular activity, you cannot just show up at an entrance to Yellowstone National Park with your snowmobile and expect to get in.

Where to snowmobile in Yellowstone Park and surrounding areas including West Yellowstone and Wind River Country. Find tours, rentals and snowmobiling trails.

In Grand Teton, all’s quiet on the western front in winter, except one unique lodging operation that come alive when the snow starts to fall.

Go on an unforgettable hiking vacation. Wildland Trekking has a tour that fits nearly anyone who loves to hike in world-renowned, breathtaking landscapes

Here's a map of roads that open in spring in Yellowstone National Park.

Forty-nine miles of park roads from the West Entrance at West Yellowstone, Mont., to Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. open to bicyclists starting mid-March.

Here’s everything you need to know about Yellowstone National Park from which park entrances and roads are open in winter to how to get there.

Stay at one of the most famous places in Yellowstone next to a geyser. Seven stories high, it's predominant feature is its gabled, shingled roof.

Mammoth offers a chance to see elk grazing around the travertine Terraces as the hotel sits alongside what was once Fort Yellowstone.

National Park Trips Media and Tamron have teamed up to offer Photo Workshops inside your favorite national parks.

All about Yellowstone and the journeys to the park with tips on where to stay, things to do, and where to stop on the way. Choose paper or digital.

Parks that usually charge an entrance fee will be free on several days during the year. Check our list of dates for this year.

Get out of the car and learn something at these amazing museums on the way to the park. Plus... two museums inside Yellowstone.

Sage Lodge, located on the banks of the Yellowstone River just 35 minutes from Yellowstone National Park, offers the ultimate Montana getaway.

Let a winter concessionaire show you around Yellowstone. Knowledgeable local guides will make the day a memorable one.

On the way to Glacier or Yellowstone, stay at this historic hotel beautifully remodeled to retain the classic design of the past while adding luxury amenities.

Guest ranch lodging and recreation in Montana. This kind of a vacation is for everyone, both experienced and beginner riders. Your complete package includes all meals, lodging and ranch activities.

Day 1: Head to Jackson Hole and Grand Teton National Park for elk, art and views. Then spend Day 2 among Yellowstone's wildlife and geysers.

One of the most breathtaking routes to Yellowstone is the 68-mile stretch of the Beartooth Highway - named a National Scenic Byway’s “All-American Road.”

Here are Grand Teton National Park's entrances that are open in winter to how to get there.

One call for lodging, activities & discounts on airfare. Local experts on Yellowstone and Grand Teton make vacation planning effortless.

A side trip on your Yellowstone vacation - head to the tasting room of an innovative distillery of whiskey, liqueur and gin in a historic mining town.

We received 3,000 spectacular photo entries to our 8th Annual National Park Photo Contest and the winners have been selected.

The four elk antler arches guarding the corners of Town Square, have been featured in thousands of family photos over the years.

The overlook has been closed for a two-year rehabilitation project, which created an expanded viewing area that is safer and more accessible.

It offers rustic homes, log cabins, luxury accommodations, a clubhouse with a swimming pool, and everything in between.

Superintendent Dan Wenk reminisces about the last century and shares thoughts about the challenges and opportunities for the next century.

A charging grizzly bear is NOT the same thing as a mugger on a street corner, or even a charging pit bull. Get a bear spray deterrent that's up to the job.

Located an hour from the park, Yellowstone Regional Airport in Cody is the year-round aviation gateway to America’s first national park and NW Wyoming.

Inside the park are nine different lodging options divided between the west side and east side ranging from rustic chalets to grand lodges.

Yellowstone is the largest active geyser field in the world.

Bears climb high above timberline in Yellowstone National Park to feed on moths that come from farmland many miles away.

This 3-unit park is known for amazing wildlife (bison and elk), 95 miles of hiking trails, horseback riding, water sports, and inspiring a president.