Jellystone Park

Jellystone Park
The park's entrance sign in the short, "Home-Sweet Jellystone".
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Alias	Jellystone National Park
Type	National Park
Location	U.S.A.
Inhabitants	Rangers: Ranger Smith (head ranger) Ranger Jones Ranger Roubideux Ranger Brown Ranger Mortimer Residents: Yogi Bear Boo-Boo Bear Cindy Bear Mrs. Bear Sammy Bear Theodore Bear
Other information
First appearance	"Yogi Bear's Big Break" (The Huckleberry Hound Show)

Jellystone National Park, or simply Jellystone Park, is a fictional national park and the main setting of the Yogi Bear franchise.

Background

It is a national park located somewhere in the western United States and is protected by park rangers led by Ranger Smith. Animals including bears are the most prominent to be seen at the park, which includes Yogi, his pal Boo-Boo, and his girlfriend Cindy. While the park is typically teeming with visitors including campers and tourists, it is occasionally at risk of being shut down due to a lack of funding.

Known Locations

• Yogi's Cave
• Cindy's Cave
• Ranger Station
• Lover's Leap
• Elephant Rock ("Hide and Go Peek")
• Old Dependable Geyser ("Big Brave Bear")
• Old Faithful (Yogi's First Christmas and "Bear Obedience")
• The Tulies ("Unbearable")

Appearances

Television series

• The Huckleberry Hound Show
• The Yogi Bear Show
• Yogi's Gang
  • "The Gossipy Witch"
  • "Lotta Litter"
• The New Yogi Bear Show
• "Grindhog Day" (Yo Yogi!)

Films and specials

• Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
• Yogi's Ark Lark
• Yogi's First Christmas
• Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
• Yogi's Great Escape
• Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears
• Yogi the Easter Bear
• Boo Boo Runs Wild
• A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith
• Boo Boo and the Man
• When Animals Nap
• Lullabye-Bye Bear
• Yogi Bear (film)

Educational films

• Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips
  • Yogi Bear: Play it Safe
  • Yogi Bear Visits His Medical Friends
• Learning Tree Filmstrip Set
  • Learning About Citizenship with Yogi Bear
  • Learning About Groups and Rules with Yogi Bear
• Earthquake Preparedness
• D.A.R.E. Bear Yogi

Video games

• Yogi's Frustration
• Yogi Bear (1987)
• Yogi's Great Escape
• Yogi Bear's Math Adventures
• Yogi Bear visits... the National Parks
• Yogi's Big Clean Up
• Adventures of Yogi Bear
• Yogi Bear's Gold Rush
• Yogi Bear: Great Balloon Blast
• Yogi Bear: The Video Game

Publications

• Yogi Bear (comic strips) (1961-1981)
• Yogi Bear (Dell Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Gold Key Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Charlton Comics) and Harvey
• The Flintstones (Marvel Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Marvel Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Archie Comics) (Hanna-Barbera All-Stars, Hanna-Barbera Presents and Yogi Bear #1)
• Cartoon Network Presents
• "Bear-ly Scared" (Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #35)
• Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special #1

Notes/Trivia

• The park itself is a reference to Yellowstone National Park, a real-life national park that's located mostly in Wyoming with certain parts of it in both Montana and Idaho.
• Most of the films resort to using Jellystone's imminent closure as a subplot, which features Yogi inevitably saving it through the film's main plot.
• The name "Jellystone National Park" was originally used in "Barney's Hungry Cousin", a 1953 theatrical short in the Barney Bear series, produced by MGM.
• Jellystone Park varies in its first appearance, including its' park entrance sign and variously colored landscapes (including trees, bushes, flowers, mountains, etc.).
  • Additionally, it was sketched and painted by several of Hanna-Barbera's background and layout artists of the original Yogi Bear shorts from The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Yogi Bear Show, including Tony Rivera, Dick Bickenbach, Fernando Montealegre, Walter Clinton, Joseph Montell, Robert Gentle, Ed Benedict, Richard H. Thomas, Iwao Takamoto for "Bear Foot Soldiers", Dan Noonan, Ernest Nordli, Art Lozzi, and Neenah Maxwell.