YellowstonePark.com is owned and operated by Yellowstone Journal Corporation, a private company based in Lander, Wyo.
We are a team of many brought together by a shared vision, and a passion for Yellowstone and all the regions, attractions and wonders that our company promotes. Most of us are locals, and the few of us who aren’t, moved here from Germany and Colorado and Iowa to become locals. We live and play here and work hard to provide inspiring and useful information to people considering or planning a Yellowstone vacation.
A Yellowstone vacation is America’s best road trip. It includes more than a visit to the world’s first national park. A Yellowstone vacation includes exploring various routes and communities and natural wonders while en route to and from the Park. This site, and our other publications and services, have one goal in mind: To inspire you to experience our regions, attractions, wonders and things to do in Yellowstone Park country, and to provide you with all the trip-planning tools you need to do so.
Some brief history: In early 1994, Shelli and Jerry Johnson, with the help of Shelli’s parents, Bill and Nancy Sniffin, founded the company, which at the time published an independent newspaper, the Yellowstone Journal, a publication dedicated to providing the most up-to-date Yellowstone National Park news and Yellowstone information available. Soon the Yellowstone Journal was converted to a color magazine and is currently sold inside Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, to subscribers in all 50 states, and via newsstands throughout the U.S.
YellowstonePark.com was founded in late 1995, and was soon after named a “Yahoo Site of the Week.†In 2005, YellowstonePark.com was voted the “#1 Tourism Site in the World†by the prestigious Webby Awards’ People’s Voice, and “Best Travel Site†by the Web Marketing Association. YellowstonePark.com is developed largely based on what our site’s customers have indicated they are wanting and needing in determining the destination for their vacation, as well as what they need to adequately plan a vacation of a lifetime.
In 2000, Yellowstone Journal Corporation added another magazine, 99 Things to Do in Yellowstone Country. Every year, more than 500,000 readers enjoy the print magazine, which is distributed in a 7-state region at logical points along the way to and from Yellowstone beginning 1-2 days away from the park. The entire text and advertorial from the magazine is also available in the Things to Do online content on YellowstonePark.com and as a downloadable magazine.
Yellowstone Journal Corporation also provides the free direct mail “Yellowstone Trip Planner Kitâ€, publishes numerous e-Newsletters, and conducts extensive customer research of Yellowstone’s prospective and actual visitors.