Spot the Difference

Yellowstone is enormous. The park encompasses 3,472 square miles, which makes it larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined! Within the park, visitors will find the largest concentration of mammals in the lower 48 states and more than 500 active geysers. This makes up for more than half the world’s geysers!

If you are interested in finding out how exactly you can support the fight to preserve the natural habitats and ensure the safety of the turtle population, reducing your carbon footprint is the best thing you can do! Climate change is the greatest threat facing the turtle population in modern times, and indeed ourselves. As coral reefs suffer and a warming planet threatens to skew sex ratios, ensuring that you are reducing your impact on the world around you is the best way to lend a hand!

The Grand Canyon is incredibly massive and has so many sudden changes in elevation that it creates its own weather. Temperatures and precipitation vary drastically from one part of the canyon to another. The coldest weather station is on the North Rim at the Bright Angel River Station, while the hottest and driest is just 8 miles away at Phantom Ranch!