Yellowstone tourist gets jail time for parking on thermal area

Yellowstone tourist gets jail time for parking on thermal area

POWELL — A Georgia man who parked on top of one of Yellowstone National Park’s thermal areas last fall has been ordered to serve a week in jail and stay out of the park for the next five years.

Naive Tourists Gather Around Grizzly Bear Family @ Yellowstone National Park

The peak tourist months for Yellowstone National Park are typically June, July, and August but its 2.2 million acres are open to visitors year round, and right about now is when visitations begin to ramp up. The grizzly bear population in Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding Greater Yellowstone is estimated 950–1,000 bears as of 2025 and they are beginning to awaken from their winter hibernation en masse. With tourists steadily tricklin…