Angling in Yellowstone National Park features. The National Park Service may also enact emergency closures and restrictions because of low water, high temperatures or fires. Anglers should always be familiar with the most current regulations, restrictions and closures. A Yellowstone National Park fishing permit is required to fish in the park. State licenses are not required. Angling supplies are available in the park's concession stores and in the towns associated with major entrances to the park—West Yellowstone, Montana; Gardiner, Montana; Jackson, Wyoming; Cody, Wyoming and Cooke City, Montana The original expeditions that explored the regions that ultimately became Yellowstone National Park in 1872 caught fish
George Washington Memorial Park (Jackson, Wyoming) added to the antler arches the same year. George Washington Memorial Park (Jackson, Wyoming) George Washington Memorial Park is located at the center of Jackson, Wyoming. More generally known as "Town Square", the park is notable for its elk-antler arches at each corner of the park, collected from the nearby National Elk Refuge by Boy Scouts and periodically rebuilt. The square originally existed as an open space in the center of town that was made into a park in 1934. The park center also contains a stone memorial to John Colter. The Town Square originated as an open space in