Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, is the epicenter of everything that's still wild and untamed in the United States, and everything that's right and wrong about modern-day tourism. Yellowstone is the oldest park in the U.S. park system and is its flagship. Each year, it draws three million visitors. They come to experience the park's restless geology, to see grizzlies, gray wolves, and herds of buffalo and to fish legendary trout streams like the Madison and the Yellowstone River. They come to reconnect in some way with a sense of primordial America, the larger-than-life landscape that existed before technologies began to cut everything down to size.
