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"Get out of Yellowstone! It's gonna get ugly!"

- Charlie Frost

Yellowstone National Park was a national park located primarily in the U.S. State of Wyoming, although it also extended into Idaho and Montana.

History[]

20th Century[]

In 1999, Jackson Curtis and Kate Curtis visited Yellowstone Lake when they married.

21st Century[]

By late 2012, Yellowstone had increased in volcanic activity. Several regions of the park were declared restricted zones and fenced off by the U.S. Army so that geologists could study the increasing phenomenon that would soon become the disastrous apocalypse. The Yellowstone Lake had almost completely dried by this time.

Adrian Helmsley flew to Yellowstone to collect data from the caldera. As he was discussing to Professor West about scientific news around Yellowstone in a government research facility, a soldier informs him that a family has passed the restricted fence. The family are taken to the facility for a brief detention wherein Adrian discovers them to be Jackson Curtis, the author of Farewell Atlantis, and his children Noah and Lilly. Being a fan of Jackson's books, Adrian greets the Curtises and converses with them before ordering their release. Adrian returns to a hut where Professor West was checking the data. They later hold a video call to Satnam Tsurutani on webcam from a laptop, where they hoped that they were wrong about the end of the world; Satnam informed them that the Earth's crust is destabilizing, which horrified Adrian and West, meaning the apocalypse will occur early than expected.

Later that night, after an unexpected report that Yellowstone and other hot zones across the Earth were rising at an unprecedented rate, which would lead to the Yellowstone Caldera erupting soon. In response, Professor West, the military and all research personnel evacuated from Yellowstone, with Adrian warning Carl Anheuser that the apocalypse would begin soon and that the evacuations had to commence immediately to preserve humanity.

The park was later destroyed when Yellowstone's caldera erupted some time after the San Andreas Earthquakes destroyed the entire state of California, leading the eruption to engulf the entire United States.

Trivia[]

  • In the film, it at first (when Jackson drives) appears to be close to Los Angeles, but in reality it is much (much) further away, that Jackson would need a commercial flight or a private plane to fly there and back in a short amount of time.
  • Additionally, in Los Angeles, Jackson could also catch Charlie's radio signals/broadcast, while Charlie was in Yellowstone, in reality, it would be too far to pickup.
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