First National Park Research Paper

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Yellowstone is America’s first National park. Located in the state of Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park draws millions of visitors every year. Yellowstone park includes over three thousand square miles of lakes, canyons, rivers, and mountains. The National park is bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. All though Yellowstone is considered to be located in Wyoming the park actually stretches across three states. Ninety six percent of Yellowstone is in Wyoming but the other three percent of the park is in two other states, three percent is in Montana, and the last one percent is in Idaho.("Introduction to Yellowstone." 1)
Before Yellowstone became the first National park, Native Americans lived off the land by the rivers and in the

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