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Yellowstone National Park

noun

  1. a park in NW Wyoming and adjacent parts of Montana and Idaho: geysers, hot springs, falls, canyon. 3,458 sq. mi. (8,955 sq. km).


Yellowstone National Park

noun

  1. a national park in the NW central US, mostly in NW Wyoming: the oldest and largest national park in the US, containing unusual geological formations and geysers. Area: 8956 sq km (3458 sq miles)


Yellowstone National Park

  1. Located in Wyoming .


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Notes

Famous for its geysers, including “Old Faithful,” and for its bears and buffalo.
The first national park in the United States.

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Example Sentences

By midsummer, the town of Jackson and its neighboring Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park will be busy.

The reason for the sudden restart of Steamboat Geyser, found at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, remains a mystery, the scientists say.

Yellowstone National Park just had its busiest September on record, with more than 800,000 visits—a 21 percent increase from the previous September.

Wildlife ecologist Jim Halfpenny was standing by the stone arch at the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park on January 12, 1995, when horse trailers eased through carrying the first wild gray wolves to enter the park in about 60 years.

Kayla Fratt greets a driver as he hauls his boat toward one of three boat ramps in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park.

At any rate, the later years and the burial-place of the first discoverer of the Yellowstone National Park are unknown.

The act of dedication for the Yellowstone National Park made it a reservation "for the benefit and enjoyment of the people."

The buffalo (bison) is protected in the Yellowstone National Park, and will probably be preserved from extinction.

The hot springs of the Yellowstone National Park may be roughly divided into two classes, eruptive and non-eruptive.

The climate of the Yellowstone National Park, to any one with a fair reserve of health, is of the most beneficial kind.

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