Yellowstone reports record number of visitors

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - Yellowstone National Park is reporting a record high number of visitors in October.

Just over 194,800 visited the park in October, surpassing the previous October record of over 189,000 set in 2010.

There were over 3.4 million recreational visits to Yellowstone in the first 10 months of 2014, an increase of over 10 percent over the same period last year.

With two months left in the calendar year, 2014 is already the second-highest visitation year on record. The park’s peak year was 2010, when there were over 3.6 million visitors.