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February 5, 2016
Winter visitors to Yellowstone find a place so quiet it's like another world
Winter visitors tend to stay longer and spend more, but there are fewer of them, especially after a new park plan has limited snow coach and snowmobile traffic.
By BRETT FRENCH
Billings Gazette
Hannah Potes/The Billings Gazette via AP
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Chris Donnelly, left, and Kate Fitzgerald of Australia, check out Black Sand Basin along a boardwalk at Yellowstone. This is the second season under a new plan that limits snowcoach and snowmobile traffic. The change is noticeable to many.
OLD FAITHFUL, Wyo. — The contrast is stark, and not just because of the bright white snow that blankets the steaming, otherworldly landscape.
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