Top 10 Things to Know for a Winter Visit to Yellowstone National Park The winter season began in Yellowstone National Park Wednesday, December 15, and most park roads opened to over-snow vehicles. Due to limited snow, travel will be restricted to snowcoaches until conditions improve. Related: 9 Winter Camping Tips and Tricks to Stay Warm and Dry Annually from mid-December until mid-March, visitors travel most of the park’s roads by commercially guided snowmobiles […] SnowBrains | December 20, 2021 0 Comments
This Weekend is Last Opportunity to Drive into Yellowstone National Park | Majority of Roads Close For Winter on November 8th This weekend, November 6-7, provides the last chance for visitors to drive to many iconic locations in Yellowstone. The West, South, and East Entrances and all roads, with one exception, will close to vehicle travel at 12:01 a.m. Monday, November 8. The park annually closes roads in early November to prepare them for the winter season and snowmobile and snowcoach […] SnowBrains | November 2, 2021 0 Comments
Woman Jailed for Approaching Grizzly Bear in Yellowstone National Park Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that Samantha R Dehring, 25 of Carol Stream, Illinois, pleaded guilty to willfully remaining, approaching, and photographing wildlife within 100 yards. The other count, feeding, touching, teasing, frightening, or intentionally disturbing wildlife, was dismissed. Dehring appeared in front of Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming on October 6, […] SnowBrains | October 8, 2021 1 Comment
Search For Former Navy Seal Missing in Yellowstone Moves From Rescue to Recovery After five days of searching, efforts to locate Kim Crumbo at Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park transitioned from rescue to recovery on September 24. Park search and rescue crews located the body of his step-brother Mark O’Neill along the east shore of Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park Monday, September 20. Related: 1 Body Found and Another Man, a Former Navy Seal, Still Missing in Yellowstone National Park O’Neill, 67, […] SnowBrains | September 27, 2021 0 Comments
1 Body Found and Another Man, a Former Navy Seal, Still Missing in Yellowstone National Park Park search and rescue crews located the body of Mark O’Neill along the east shore of Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park Monday, Sept. 20. O’Neill, 67, from Chimacum, Washington, and his half-brother, Kim Crumbo, 74, from Ogden, Utah, were reported overdue by a family member Sunday, Sept. 19 from their four-night backcountry trip to Shoshone Lake. On Sunday, Sept. […] SnowBrains | September 22, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Visitor Captures Tourist Couple Washing Their Dogs in Yellowstone’s Thermal Water A Yellowstone visitor filmed a tourist couple washing their dogs in thermal water last week, risking serious injury to them and their pets. I am sad to say this happened today at Firehole Lake Drive. They were washing their dogs in the Thermal water!!!!! The stream was runoff from Firehole Lake, and steam can clearly be seen coming off the […] SnowBrains | September 17, 2021 10 Comments
Yellowstone Employee Suffers Serious Burn Injuries After Leaving Boardwalk at Old Faithful Geyser A 19-year-old woman suffered second- and third-degree burns to 5% of her body yesterday at Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. The woman, from Rhode Island, is a concessions employee in the park. Park rangers provided initial care before she was taken by ambulance to West Yellowstone and then life-flighted to the Burn Center at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical […] SnowBrains | September 17, 2021 0 Comments
Woman Jailed and Fined for Leaving Boardwalk and Walking on Thermal Ground at Yellowstone National Park Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that Madeline S. Casey, age 26 of New Hartford, Connecticut was sentenced to seven days in jail for walking on thermal ground at Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. In addition, she was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, $40 in fees, and a $1,000 community service payment to the Yellowstone […] SnowBrains | August 27, 2021 6 Comments
