10 Interesting Fact About Yellowstone National Park

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• Yellowstone is the first national park in the world, founded in 1872.
• This national park has more than 300 active geyser and more than 10,000 other geothermal features.
• Yellowstone is a home for various species of wildlife, including Grizzly bears, wolves, and deer.
• Old Faithful, the most famous geysir in the park, erupts every 44 to 125 minutes.
• Yellowstone has a long history with Indian tribes, and some tribes still use it for religious ceremonies.
• This national park covers an area of more than 2.2 million hectares, larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware.
• Yellowstone has the second largest lake in the United States, namely Lake Yellowstone.
• The geothermal area in this park has an extraordinary color, such as colorful crater in the Grand Prismatic Spring.
• This national park has more than 900 miles of hiking paths, including part of the Continental Divide Trail.
• There are more than 10,000 different insects that live in Yellowstone, including species that are only found in this national park.