Bear attack in Yellowstone National Park leaves 2 hikers injured

Two hikers were injured successful a carnivore onslaught Monday connected a fashionable way conscionable miles from Yellowstone National Park’s iconic Old Faithful geyser, prompting officials to adjacent a ample swath of the parkland arsenic investigators enactment to find what went wrong.

The onslaught happened Monday day connected the Mystic Falls Trail, a heavy traveled way adjacent the Midway Geyser Basin that features a loop to a 70-foot waterfall, parkland officials said.

Emergency crews with the National Park Service responded rapidly aft the encounter, which officials described arsenic a azygous incidental involving 1 oregon much bears. Authorities person not yet identified the taxon involved.

Park officials temporarily unopen down the surrounding area, including aggregate trails and backcountry campsites, arsenic the probe continues.

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A motion marks the northbound entranceway of Yellowstone National Park with mountains disposable down it connected May 7, 2018. (Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service)

Officials person not released details astir the hikers’ conditions oregon whether they were traveling together.

The incidental marks the archetypal carnivore onslaught resulting successful injuries successful Yellowstone successful 2026. The past akin incidental occurred successful September 2025, erstwhile a hiker was injured connected a way northeast of Yellowstone Lake.

Bear attacks successful Yellowstone are uncommon contempt the popularity of the park, which draws much than 4 cardinal visitors each year. The past fatal onslaught wrong the parkland occurred successful 2015.

A achromatic carnivore forages for nutrient adjacent a watercourse successful Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., connected May 18, 2024. (Jonathan Newton/Getty Images)

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Yellowstone is location to some grizzly and achromatic bears, with grizzlies mostly larger and much aggressive. Officials said determining the benignant of carnivore progressive volition beryllium portion of the investigation.

A grizzly carnivore is seen successful Yellowstone National Park successful Wyoming. (Karen Bleier/AFP)

The destiny of the carnal oregon animals progressive volition beryllium connected the circumstances of the attack, including whether it was a antiaircraft brushwood oregon thing much unusual.

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Park officials are reminding visitors to instrumentality precautions erstwhile hiking successful carnivore country, including staying astatine slightest 100 yards distant from bears, carrying carnivore spray, making sound and hiking successful groups.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.