Yellowstone Park ‘Touron’ Allows Kid To Walk Right Up To Bison

Yellowstone National Park is once again trending due to poor decisions made by visitors, or 'tourons' in this case. Some people can't grasp the fact that the park is not a petting zoo.

It's been a couple years since my last visit to Yellowstone. We've taken our young boy there a couple of times, and at age nine, he already has more common sense and an appreciation for nature than most people that flock to the park annually for vacation.

I've seen raw, natural beauty, as well as raw, natural stupidity within park boundaries. My greatest Yellowstone Park memory is taking a snowmobile trip with family and friends in 2009.

Yellowstone 'Touron' Lets Kid Get WAY Too Close To Bison

Yellowstone is a magical place, but you have to have your head on a swivel and be constantly aware of your surroundings; the animals go where they want to, and visitors have to be prepared to give them a wide birth, for the family's safety as well as the animals.

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In the past five years, there have been a few highly-publicized incidents of parents allowing their kids to wander right up to bison. A 2024 incident shows a young child with a camera standing roughly six week from a bison and taking a picture with no adult close by.

Earlier this month, a woman can be seen in a photograph walking her toddler to within a few feet of one as well. Video surfaced back in 2020 that shows a 9-year-old get tossed 10 feet into the sky by a bison. Parents are exposing their kids to very dangerous and potentially fatal interactions with park wildlife.