It’s officially grizzly bear season. The first bears of 2025 have been spotted in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

It remained prominent into the fall of 2024: a strong steam plume that remained visible from a nearby road on chilly mornings ...

Males tend to emerge before females; females with cubs born over the winter tend to come out later. Grand Teton National Park ...

A park scientist noticed it about two weeks after a hydrothermal explosion along a boardwalk during the park’s overactive ...

For example, this winter’s emergence video from Yellowstone shows a mother black bear, still groggy and adjusting to the daylight, gingerly leaving her den. Welcoming the spring sun, she reveals her ...

Aside from their world-famous geysers, Yellowstone is renowned for its diverse populations of wildlife, especially its ...

But here's the reality of visiting Yellowstone in the winter: it is very, very cold. As much as I wanted to embrace Beth's western-chic aesthetic, the snow, wind, and temperature had other plans.

Yet the National Park Service is only a quarter of the way toward its proposal to remove up to 1,375 animals this season.

(Clearly, I couldn't hang.) Because I went to Yellowstone in the winter, I cared more about staying warm than dressing like a Dutton — but I did attempt to rock Beth's Western chic aesthetic.