23 Dec 2014

Yellowstone national park

Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone national park is the first American national park that established on March 1, 1872. It has world largest calderas, which measure 45 ✕ 30 miles.

Facts of the Yellowstone national park

  1. Yellowstone national park has one of the highly dangerous super active volcano.
  2. Yellowstone national park attracts 3 million visitors every year.
  3. It faces 2,000 earthquakes every year.
  4. The park is covered by 5% water, 15% of grassland and 80% forest.
  5. It has more than 300 Geysers.
  6. The park has more than 50 mammal species.
  7. The lowest temperature of the park ever recorded is -66 degrees Fahrenheit.
  8. In 1988, approximately 26% forest suffered by canopy burn.
  9. The largest hot spring in North America is grand prismatic springs in Yellowstone national park, which heat 4,000 gallons of water per minute.
  10. The park is 80 miles long and 54 miles wide.
  11. Yellowstone national park is home of 40 major waterfalls, 12 major rivers include boiling rivers.
  12. 16 species of fish in the river of national park.
  13. The visitors who enters into the park had given the road map by parks association. The map information, has written in 10 different languages.
  14. In winter season the park has occupied full of snow and wolves.
  15. In Christmas season Christmas trees where cut for $5.
  16. The national park week celebrates in the month of April 19 and 20.

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