Families gawk at a game enclosure featuring stuffed buffalo, grizzlies, bighorn sheep and other rarely seen emblems of the American frontier.

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Guests Marilyn Monroe and Benny Goodman added glamour in the 1950s, while a golf course kept visitors occupied when they were not busy spotting local grizzly bears and bighorn sheep.

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But, most of all, the park and its shuttle buses allow access to hundreds of square miles of Eden-like wilderness, a vast backcountry replete with grizzly bears, bighorn sheep and sharp Gothic mountains.

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With the controversial reintroduction of grey wolves to Yellowstone in 1995, the ecosystem here is complete again, with every predator, from wolves to grizzly bears, and every prey species, such as elk, moose, bighorn sheep and bison, that belongs here.

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