Visits to Yellowstone National Park continue to surge upward. In August, the park hosted 881,936 recreation visits, representing a 2% increase compared to the same month in 2024, the National Park Service revealed.

Although the park isn't quite at its record pace from 2021, it is still seeing an increase of 2% overall compared to last year.

The numbers:

2025 – 3,547,967

2024 – 3,494,350

2023 – 3,308,924

2022 – 2,437,607

2021 – 3,590,609

2020 – 2,556,528

Although the numbers are increasing, Yellowstone National Park has growing concerns, including a camping problem and grizzly bear issues. A grizzly bear, in particular, was recently relocated quietly due to concerns about cattle.

Additionally, activity among the bears at Yellowstone tends to increase in the fall as hibernati

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