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Yellowstone National Park P.O. Box 168 Yellowstone Yellowstone, WY 82190 307-344-7381 • www.nps.gov.yell Picnic Areas Visitors can use picnic areas throughout the park. The numbers on the map below indicate the picnic area locations; they also correspond to the list on the reverse side. Signs along the roadway also indicate picnic areas. Every picnic area has tables, most have vault toilets. You can use camping stoves and self-contained charcoal grills to prepare food at any picnic area. Fires are permited only in picnic areas with fire grates. Only one picnic area—Madison—has water. Camping is not allowed in any picnic area. 41 North Entrance Northeast 40 Entrance 36 Mammoth Hot Springs 38 39 37 42 Tower– Roosevelt 35 50 43 Tower Fall 44 34 33 45 Canyon Village Norris 32 47 46 31 1 49 48 West Entrance 2 Madison 30 3 29 28 Fishing North Bridge 4 Lake Village 22 23 East Bridge Bay 21 24 Entrance 20 25 26 5 15 19 27 6 8 16 18 Old Faithful 9 17 7 14 West Thumb Grant Village 13 10 Bechler 11 South Entrance 12 Picnic Area Information # Name Fire Grates Tables Restrooms 1 Madison River 7 1* 2 Madison Junction 14 1 3 Firehole River 12 1 4 Nez Perce 3 10 1* 5 Whiskey Flat 13 1* Fires are allowed only in 6 East Lot 2 7 1* picnic areas with fire grates. 7 Spring Creek 2 10 1* 8 DeLacy Creek 9 1 Camp stoves (liquid or gas) and self-contained charcoal 9 East Divide 14 1* grills may be used for food 10 Lewis Lake 9 2* preparation at all locations. 11 Cave Falls 4 2* 12 Snake River 8 15 1* Trash must be disposed of in 13 Grant Village 12 17 1 bear-proof trash containers. 14 West Thumb 5 1* 15 Hard Road to Travel 3 Food or drink cannot be left unattended, even for a few 16 Fisherman’s Access 3 2 minutes. 17 Pumice Point 2 18 Spruce-Fir Exhibit 4 Feeding animals, including 19 Sand Point 18 4 birds, is against the law and 20 Gull Point 21 1* can harm the animals. 21 Bridge Bay 3 23 1* 22 Lake Village 2 Camping is not allowed in picnic areas. 23 Fishing Bridge 11 24 Steamboat Point 2 1* 25 Sedge Bay 3 1* 26 Sylvan Lake 8 1* 27 Eleanor Lake 2 28 LeHardy 6 29 Cascade 6 1* 30 Nez Perce Ford 17 1* 31 Otter Creek 8 Road construction affects 32 Chittenden Bridge 4 access to picnic areas each 33 Cascade 5 16 1 year. Obtain current informa- 34 Dunraven Road 12 1 tion from the park newspaper, 35 Yellowstone River 9 1* Yellowstone Today, or from 36 Warm Creek 7 1* visitor centers. 37 Lava Creek 5 1* 38 Albright 4 nearby* 39 Mammoth 4 nearby* 40 45th Parallel 2 nearby* 41 Arch Park 1 7 nearby* 42 Sheepeater Cliff 5 1* 43 Apollinaris Spring 6 2 44 Beaver Lake 9 1* 45 Norris Meadows 4 16 1* 46 Virginia Cascades 6 1* 47 Gibbon Meadows 9 1* 48 Gibbon Falls (unavailable) 49 Tuff Cliffs 2 1* 50 Soda Butte 3 + 1* 1* * = handicapped accessible Yell 455 • 03/08.

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