Yellowstone National Park: Isa Lake, Yellowstone National Park
Isa Lake is one of the world's most unusual lakes because its water drains to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – and does it backwards. The waters flowing west from the lake eventually reach the...
Updated:
May 26, 2009
 View on map
|
Yellowstone National Park: Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
The Lower Basin contains many minor springs, geysers, and paint pots. The more important features of the area are the Great Fountain and White Dome geysers, the colorful Fountain Paint Pots and...
Updated:
May 05, 2009
 View on map
|
Yellowstone National Park: Specimen Ridge, Yellowstone National Park
On this little mountain, the eroded remnant of an ancient lava ash deposit, are some of Yellowstone's most famous petrified forests - buried alive by the lava ash and still standing in the same...
Updated:
May 05, 2009
 View on map
|
Yellowstone National Park: Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
The major attractions at Midway Basin are the Grand Prismatic Spring and Excelsior Geyser – once the most powerful in the park. It spouted in 1888, then waited more than 100 years before going off...
Updated:
May 26, 2009
 View on map
|
Yellowstone National Park: Moose Falls, Yellowstone National Park
These spectacular Moose Falls, near the Lewis River where Crawfish Creek tumbles down the plateau toward the Lewis River Canyon, are split into several channels by jutting lava rocks.
Updated:
May 05, 2009
|
Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park
The canyon, made by the Yellowstone River, which continues to carve its path through the mountains, reaches a maximum depth of 1,540 feet a short distance down-river from Artist Point. The colors are...
Updated:
May 12, 2009
 View on map
|
Yellowstone National Park: Lower Falls, Yellowstone National Park
The Yellowstone River tumbles 308 feet, striking the canyon floor with such force that it sends foam and mist hundreds of feet upward, dampening the rocks so constantly that bright green moss grows...
Updated:
May 05, 2009
 View on map
|
Yellowstone National Park: Falls of the Gibbon, Yellowstone National Park
The Gibbon River tumbles 84 feet in a thin, white veil at Gibbon Falls. Wildlife is easily visible in the area. Golden mantled ground squirrels and bright eyed chipmunks scramble over the rocks, while...
Updated:
Apr 21, 2009
 View on map
|
Yellowstone National Park: Petrified Tree, Yellowstone National Park
North and west from Tower Junction inside Yellowstone National Park is a side road leading south approximately one mile west of Roosevelt Lodge. This half-mile spur road leads to Petrified Tree, a...
Updated:
May 05, 2009
|
Yellowstone National Park: Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
To many people, the most exciting thermal area in Yellowstone National Park is Norris Geyser Basin. The geyser basin is Yellowstone's most compact thermal area, with literally hundreds of geysers,...
Updated:
May 05, 2009
 View on map
|
|
|