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Yellowstone National Park or simply Yellowstone, is the oldest and one of the most famous national parks in the United States.
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Yellowstone National Park is located in three states - Wyoming (most of the park, about 96% of the total area), Idaho and Montana . The area of the reserve is 8 983 km 2 (this is more than the states of Delaware or Rhode Island ); the length of the park from north to south is 101 kilometers, and from west to east - 87 kilometers. The highest point of Yellowstone is Mount Eagle Peak (3,466 meters above sea level), the lowest is the banks of the Reese Creek (1,610 meters).
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On the territory of the park you can see rivers and lakes, valleys and mountain ranges, forests and meadows, canyons and waterfalls, numerous hot springs and geysers, one of the largest petrified forests in the world. The reserve is known, among other things, for the extraordinary diversity of flora and fauna.
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Yellowstone National Park is located in the upper reaches of the river of the same name (from which it got its name). In turn, the river was so named by the native Indians (and later by the American pioneers) in honor of the yellow rocks ( Yellowstone - "yellow stone"), discovered in one of the canyons of the future reserve.
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Yellowstone National Park attracts millions of tourists, for whom a convenient and developed infrastructure has been created.
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On the territory of modern Yellowstone National Park, at least eleven thousand years ago, the native inhabitants - American Indians - already lived. In 1805, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, exploring the northwestern United States and passing through Montana , heard from local residents (Ne-Persian, Shoshone and Crow Indians) about an unusual region located to the south.
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One of the members of this expedition, John Coulter, returned here in the winter of 1807-1808, becoming the first European to explore Yellowstone National Park. He described the western regions of Wyoming, including colorfully describing the geysers and hot springs he saw. Coulter was then not believed, considering his stories fables and calling the places he described "Coulter's hell."