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The Grand Loop Road is a historic district which encompasses the primary road system in Yellowstone National Park.Much of the 140-mile (230 km) system was originally planned by Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the early days of the park, when it was under military administration.
The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile (130 km 2) area in the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of a reported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person may be able to theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress through the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
While the official western terminus of the road is at the Eastern gate of Yellowstone National Park, some commercially produced maps show US 14 within the park itself starting at a junction with US 89 and US 287 at West Thumb and following the northern shore of Yellowstone Lake. From the park US 14 is cosigned with US 16 and US 20.
Passing northward along the western border of Wyoming with Idaho, US 89 enters the Grand Teton National Park. Here, US 89 is the backbone visitor highway for two U.S. National Parks. Leaving the Tetons, the road enters a lesser known park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, before ending at the South Entrance of Yellowstone National ...
The Yellowstone Trail was conceived by Joseph William Parmley of Ipswich, South Dakota.In April 1912, the first step he and his local influential colleagues wanted was a 25-mile-long (40 km) good road from Ipswich over to Aberdeen, also in South Dakota.
Some commercially produced maps show US 89 going through Yellowstone National Park; however, it officially has a gap inside the park and resumes in Wyoming at the South Entrance. US 89 travels north along the Yellowstone River for 52.9 miles (85.1 km) to Livingston, where it heads east along a 7.5-mile (12.1 km) concurrency with I-90/US 191.
Yellowstone National Park: −2.1: −3.4: West Entrance Road: Continuation into Wyoming; US 20 resumes at Yellowstone National Park's East Entrance; US 191/US 287 resume at the park's South Entrance: 0.000: 0.000: Yellowstone National Park West Entrance: Southern end of state maintenance of US 20/US 191/US 287 concurrency: West Yellowstone: 0. ...