Only a very small percentage of Yellowstone"s total visitors see the park when it looks like this. In winter, when the park grows quiet, its hydrothermal features really stand out, like the rainbow-hued Grand Prismatic Spring in the bottom center of this image, the most photographed feature in Yellowstone.
National Park Week begins
Today in History
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World Rivers Day
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Talampaya National Park, Argentina
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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
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International Moon Day
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Eurasian lynx
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Pumpkin patch
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Happy New Year! (Again!)
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Fiddlehead fern fronds
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Brain coral
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Mount Rainier National Park
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The Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
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It’s NASA’s 60th birthday
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Art and soul
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Computer Science Education Week
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A wonder in winter
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The otherworldly red river
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World Laughter Day—it s a hoot
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Humpback whales in Maui, Hawaii
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Christmas comes to New York City
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Reflecting on one of the world s strangest rivers
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Pascua Florida Day
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Go Fly a Kite Day
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Floating temples in the Land of Smiles
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Flying high on National Bird Day
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Celebrating Minnesota’s statehood
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Remembering the Arizona
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Ingenuity in action on the Santa Monica Pier
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Winter solstice
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Everyone s watching the Perseids
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Classical music takes center stage