“[It is an] area of about 60 miles in diameter, where nothing meets the eye but a desolate and awful waste, where no grass grows nor water runs, and where nothing is to be seen but lava.”
Yellowstone isn’t a great treat in summer. Yes, the combination of animal and geothermal activity is unique – but there were about 4.86 million visitors in all of 2021, while last winter there were about 100,000 visitors.