Tourists At Yellowstone: Disregarding Safety For Social Media Fame

I write a fair amount of articles on the fools who visit Yellowstone during Montana's tourist season. Every year tourists from around the world come to our parks and think they can do whatever because that horrible and dangerous stuff only happens to other people.

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It slays me that no matter what the park does, every year there are a ton of tourists acting like morons.

There's An Instagram Page For That

It's called Tourons of Yellowstone. From their Instagram page,

Tourist + Moron = Touron!!

I love this page and I visit it often over the summer. I want to highlight some of the wonders that can be seen on this Instagram account.

This is a classic Touron video

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I love the way the bison appears to be daring them to keep filming him, and the complete panic when the wild animal knocked the human over and he bled. Dude, you have no idea how lucky you are.

Here we have a video full of people who are apparently willing to die for a selfie.

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Then there's this gal who tells you people aren't supposed to be doing this in Yellowstone, but she's gunna do it anyway "for the vine". Wow, vine? Really?

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To wrap, here's what Yellowstone National Park posts TO KEEP YOU SAFE:

Never approach wildlife
Stay on boardwalks and trails in thermal areas
Never feed wildlife
Never park in the road or block traffic

It's honestly not that hard to figure out.

Please do come to our national parks and make memories and take pictures that will last for a lifetime. While you're here, respect our parks and our wildlife. Montanans take that stuff pretty seriously.

Old Faithful Inn Yellowstone Park

Gallery Credit: Tammie Toren