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| Above, Lower Yellowstone Fall and the Yellowstone River. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Summer vacation season is just around the corner. Many people are still trying to figure out where to take the family on a vacation trip.
If you are one of those, you may want to consider Yellowstone National Park. It is the ideal place to take the family.
Travel writer Dave G. Houser has an article in MultiBrief on why Yellowstone National Park is the best national park for a family vacation.
He begins with:
America's national parks are always a good choice for a family getaway, but in my mind Yellowstone tops the list. I'll say from the start that I'm biased, having grown up in Cody, Wyoming, just an hour's drive from the park's East Entrance.
I visited the park many times, from age 4 through my teens, and I have returned on several occasions as an adult. The park was my Disneyland as a kid — and it continues to amaze and excite me in my seventies.
I'll back my contention with a number of reasons why Yellowstone has such great family appeal, but let's first review some facts about the park.
Yellowstone is the world's first national park. It was established in 1872 by an act of the U.S. Congress signed into law on March 1, 1872, by President Ulysses S. Grant. It also was one of the first 12 sites named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.
Named for the river that runs through it, Yellowstone occupies 3,472 square miles (about 2.2 million acres). That's larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. All but 3 percent of the park is located in Wyoming with the remaining snippets edging into Montana and Idaho.
The park sits atop one of the world's largest volcanoes. The first major eruption of the Yellowstone volcano occurred 2.1 million years ago and covered nearly 6,000 square miles with ash. That was one of the largest eruptions the world has ever known — but don't let it frighten you away.
There's a lot more to read as well as see (there's some nice photographs, too).
To read more, go here.
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