This Week in Yellowstone: August 27th to September 2nd, 2026

This week's Yellowstone news.

So there's not a lot going on in the park newsworthy wise, which is always good.

I'm always happy not to have much to talk about.

There has been a video circulating in social media of a person hiking out.

It looks like Lamar Valley and there was a single wolf following them.

And the guy hiking sprayed some bear spray at the wolf to try and get it to go away.

There's been a lot of like conjecture of, well, that guy shouldn't have been out there hiking.

Um, And then some of it's like, well, there's a trail out there or there's not a trail out there.

I've said this before and I'll say it again.

If there's an area you're not allowed to go to, the park will put up plenty of signs and make sure people don't go there.

Currently, the only places you can't go are closed trails, which are on the backcountry situation report, and I have a link to that in the show notes.

The thermal areas, you can't go off trail there, or you can't go off trail in bear management areas.

Other than that, you can walk where you want.

I know a lot of people don't want people walking out where there's a potential for wildlife, but there's a potential for wildlife everywhere in the park.

I was talking about this the other day.

I've seen grizzly bears on the boardwalks.

I've seen bison on the boardwalks.

You know, there's animals all over the park.

And just because there's a trail there doesn't mean that the animals aren't going to be there.

I know a lot of people will see something like that and think, oh, that shouldn't have happened.

Incidents with wildlife happens.

It looks like all went well.

From what I've heard, it was an experienced hiker in Yellowstone, did everything right.

Nothing bad happened.

That's the end of that.