Visitor center · Yellowstone National Park
Maps and local route advice before the park entrance.
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Plan your stop
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Yellowstone Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Yellowstone National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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A Porcupine’s Winter Menu“A patch of missing bark high in a tree can be a clue to a porcupine's winter meals. These slow-moving rodents are excellent climbers, using sharp claws to work their way up the trunk.”
Plays on the road 0.1 mi from West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center in the Parkwolf Yellowstone Tour Guide.
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“First time driving through a national park. We used the Yellowstone tour on grand loop Road and it’s just like having a tour guide in your car with you.”
Guide
This shared visitor information center sits inside the West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce, just outside Yellowstone's West Entrance. It's a practical place to get maps, brochures and help planning your visit, rather than an exhibit center. If you already know your route, it may be a quick stop; if you're still deciding what fits your day, ask before driving into the park.
The Chamber information desk covers Yellowstone, West Yellowstone and the surrounding area, and is staffed year-round. A separate NPS ranger desk is staffed seasonally. Rangers answer park questions, issue backcountry and fishing permits, and sell entrance passes, so check that the ranger desk is operating if you need one of those services.
Wildlife
713 sightingsGrizzly BearMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
743 sightingsWolfMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
5,273 sightingsBisonMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
3,258 sightingsElkMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
397 sightingsMooseMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
1,494 sightingsBlack BearMost seen around 7 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Yellowstone. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
EasyRiverside Ski Trail7.6 mi · 3.5 hr · 0.2 mi awayTwo loops, a forest approach, and open Madison River meadows.
EasyTwo Ribbons Trail0.7 mi · 30 min · 3.4 mi awayAn easy river loop with a close look at postfire recovery.Parkwolf’s Yellowstone ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
