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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

National Parks Week: Yellowstone’s Zone of Death

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A 50-square-mile patch of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho might just be the perfect place to commit a crime. For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to the National Parks.

Transcript

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... Yellowstone National Park is this wild rugged place.

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It's got huge, beautiful mountains, lush forests.

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It's got wildlife.

0:51.5

There are bears and bison just roaming free. So when you hear that there

0:57.8

is an area of the park known as the zone of death, you might think it means it's a place where you

1:03.8

could fall off a cliff or get eaten by bears, I don't know, maybe have some kind of Bermuda triangle

1:09.8

navigation issue.

1:11.5

It just disappear off the map.

1:14.3

But here's the thing.

1:15.7

What you actually have to worry about in the zone of death is someone murdering you and getting

1:22.3

away with it.

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I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas of Skira,

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a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places,

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and today we are taking you to a 50-square-mile patch of yellowstone in Idaho

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