Sunday July 12th marks the official re-opening of the Albright Visitor Center. The building has been newly renovated and has actually been open since Earth Day this year, April 22nd to visitors. The Albright Visitor Center is named after Horace Albright. Albright helped to establish the National Park Service in 1916. He then served as Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park for ten years, where he saw his mission as “improving Yellowstone and its services to visitors as the flagship of the National Park Service.” After his stint in Yellowstone he served as the director of the NPS and drastically increased the amount of NPS sites east of the Mississippi River including expanding the scope of locations included in the system.
This will only happen once folks so if you want to experience a historic event in Yellowstone National Park and are in the area this is your chance.
The celebration is set to begin in front of the Albright Visitors Center at 10 AM or in the Map Room of the hotel if there is bad weather.
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| Historic photo of Superintendent Horace Albright, don't try this at home folks. You must be 100 yards from bears these days. |
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Horace Albright.
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