Yellowstone National Park: Now with Wi-Fi?

Yellowstone National Park: Now with Wi-Fi?
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If some officials at Yellowstone National Park get their way, you soon may be able to get a Wi-Fi signal while looking at Old Faithful. That's because the National Park Service is considering running a $34 million fiber-optic line through parts of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, a move supporters have suggested will make the parks more relevant to internet-savvy Millennials.

Other parks may get a technology upgrade, too, as the Park Service celebrates its centennial in 2016. While Wi-Fi advocates maintain that the service will be concentrated in the developed areas of the parks, opponents suggest the money would be better spent on infrastructure maintenance.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.