"Watching Old Faithful Geyser erupt is a Yellowstone National Park tradition. People from all over the world have journeyed here to watch this famous geyser. The park’s wildlife and scenery might be as well-known today, but it was the unique thermal features like Old Faithful Geyser that inspired the establishment of Yellowstone as the world’s first national park in 1872."
Yellowstone National Park
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- By Rebecca Latson - April 16th, 2022 3:00am
Low-Flying Helicopter Prompts Concerns At Yellowstone National Park
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 15th, 2022 8:10am
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- By Kurt Repanshek - April 4th, 2022 2:45am
Watching Old Faithful Erupt At Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
- By Rebecca Latson - March 31st, 2022 4:00am
Palette Hot Spring At Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park
Water flows in crisscrossing patterns down a steep ridge where colorful thermophiles create a changing palette dominated by hues of orange and brown.
- By Rebecca Latson - March 30th, 2022 4:00am
A Lone Coyote At Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
You never know who or what you'll meet while walking a snowy boardwalk at Upper Geyser Basin.
- By Rebecca Latson - March 29th, 2022 4:00am
Hoof And Paw Prints On The Shallow Terraces Of Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park
If you take a winter snowcoach or snowmobile tour to Midway Basin and walk on the boardwalk around the edges of Grand Prismatic Spring, you'll notice paw and hoof prints on the shallow terraces of the hot spring. That white you see is not snow, but silica. The hot thermal waters hold silica in solution, and when the water cools, the silica precipitates out.
- By Rebecca Latson - March 28th, 2022 4:00am
Soda Butte And The Absaroka Mountains, Yellowstone National Park
Soda Butte is a "travertine calcium carbonate mound formed more than a century ago by a hot spring. Only small amounts of hydrothermal water and hydrogen sulfide gas currently flow from this once more prolific spring." Sometimes, you can smell the sulfur in the atmosphere around Soda Butte.
- By Rebecca Latson - March 27th, 2022 4:00am
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