Actor Pierce Brosnan was cited for hiking off-trail in November around the Mammoth Terraces area of Yellowstone National Park.
The 70-year-old Irish actor, who played the role of James Bond from 1995 to 2002, was charged with violating travel restrictions near the thermal feature on Dec. 26 in the U.S. District Court in Wyoming, according to court documents. Brosnan is scheduled to appear on Jan. 23 in federal court in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming.
Brosnan was in Park County this fall filming parts of a Western titled “Unholy Trinity” at the Yellowstone Film Ranch in Paradise Valley, according to reporting from the Livingston Enterprise. The movie is directed by Livingston resident Richard Gray and also stars Samuel L. Jackson. Its producers secured a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement to make the film during the union’s strike, which ended on Nov. 9.
Travel around thermal areas in Yellowstone is mostly limited to specific boardwalks and trails. The thermal features have delicate, breakable crusts that can sit atop scalding water, the park’s website states.
At least five people were injured in thermal areas in recent years, including one man who is believed to have died in July 2022 in the Abyss Pool, a hot spring near the western shore of Yellowstone Lake with a temperature of about 140 degrees.
Hot springs have injured or killed more people in Yellowstone than any other natural feature, according to the park. More than 20 people have died from burns suffered after they entered or fell into Yellowstone hot springs.
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