Pray, Montana, is a small community tucked just off the highway 30 miles north of Yellowstone National Park. There lies Chico ...

Imagine the painful and potentially dangerous consequences of accidentally falling into a scalding hot spring in Yellowstone.

At least 22 people are known to have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around Yellowstone since 1890, park officials said at the time. Most of the deaths have been accidents ...

The Midway Geyser Basin's Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in Yellowstone and one of the largest hot springs in the world. Measuring approximately 370 feet in size and around 121 ...

Rangers at the country’s oldest national park plan to open major roadways and entrances to the site starting Friday as part ...

Geysers, like Old Faithful in Yellowstone periodically erupt with steam and boiling water and then there ... Glenwood Hot Springs is known for having one of the largest hot spring pools in the world.

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely to America’s first national park. Find more at natgeo ...

On an August day in 2024, a Yellowstone National Park ranger driving south between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris ... mean lots of groundwater in the spring and summer, but fall and winter tend ...