In many of the tourist areas there are talks given by Park Rangers on various topics within the park. Ask at the visitor centers and look on the notice boards. If you are in the Old Faithful area during a full moon, take a walk along some of the geysers. They seem to look completely different. Take a flash light torch to make sure you keep to the path. In the Old Faithful Inn lobby you will find piano music being played on one of the balconies.

Take a flash light torch to make sure you keep to the path. In the Old Faithful Inn lobby you will find piano music being played on one of the balconies. Try and find a seat around the fire place or in the balcony, and sit back and relax. Try not to drive on the park roads at night. The Yellowstone National Park's wildlife is even harder to see until it is too late. Many are killed each year by contact with speeding vehicles.

Drivers and passengers have also been killed by large elk or buffalo coming over the car bonnet and through the car window when hit. Others have died or been injured when vehicles have swerved off the road to avoid animals on the road and collided with immovable rocks and trees. If you must to be out on park roads after dark, drive very slow.

Yellowstone Forest Fires

One third of Yellowstone burned back in 1988 (almost 800,000 acres). In the American West forest fires are a way of life. The seeds of some plants like the lodgepole pines only germinate after a burn. Fires thin out the forests and keep the eco-system healthy. Much of Yellowstone will remain scarred for several decades to come. If you smoke be very careful. Stub out your cigarettes in the ashtray on your car.

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