Things you should know when visit Yellowstone National Park

If you are a lover of natural areas and you are about to visit the United States, it is very likely that Yellowstone National Park Tours is on your list of priority sites. Let's take a look today at ways to get to know it with some practical information to organize your visit.

Yellowstone: Where is it and how to get there

Located primarily in the state of Wyoming, the park extends to the neighboring states of Idaho and Montana. Yellowstone is 120 kilometers north of Jackson Wyoming, 80 kilometers west of Cody Wyoming, 120 kilometers southeast of Bozeman Montana and 160 kilometers northeast of Idaho Falls,. All of these cities have an airport, but you will definitely need a car to get there and move around the park.

The West access to the Yellowstone Private Tours is from the small town of West Yellowstone, in Montana. Through this entrance you will also have the shortest route to visit the famous Old Faithful geyser and the geyser area of Yellowstone. At the north entrance is the small town of Gardiner, which offers little to the visitor in terms of accommodation services and more. But if you get this far, fear not, the United States National Park Service provides a good variety of hotels, restaurants, kiosks, and gas stations at various locations within the park . Beyond that, there are not many signs of civilization in these latitudes.

When to make Yellowstone Tours

Yellowstone National Park is open year-round, and the northern access near Gardiner is best if you travel in winter as the trail is kept open and clean with snowplows. At this time of year you will find many internal roads cut by snow, but there is a minimal circuit that can be done in fairly "normal" conditions.

With the exception of the north entrance, the rest remain closed from November to private vehicle traffic until the end of March or April when they reopen to the public. Within the winter period only snowmobiles are allowed.

The routes within the park have been designed to make an eight-shaped circuit, with access routes that connect at various points so that you can freely decide how to organize your Yellowstone Tours. Each of these connected circles or turns has a diameter of 40 km. You can get there from any of the cardinal points through their respective accesses (plus an additional one on the northwest side). There are six villas or service areas near the intersections of the park routes, where the "eights cross".

Accommodation within Yellowstone National Park

As we said, near the Park there are several towns. You want to take the opportunity to immerse yourself in nature completely, it would be best if you stay inside the Park itself. These accommodations are managed by the Office of National Parks.

Hotels and bungalows: There are 9 accommodations available for Tours To Yellowstone. All require prior reservation in summer. In this link you can also see which ones are open at other times of the year.

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