Yellowstone Park, WY

We spent three nights at Lewis Lake while we explored Yellowstone National Park.  Yellowstone became America's first national park in 1872; the park preserves many of the world's geysers, including Old Faithful and the world's largest, Steamboat Geyser.

Our first stop in Yellowstone was at Old Faithful.  We walked around and visited the many geysers, hotsprings and pools while we waited to see Old Faithful erupt.  Yellowstone has the most diverse collection of geysers, hot springs, mudpots, and fumaroles on earth. The more than 300 geysers within the park which makes up over half of all those found on earth. There are also more than 10,000 thermal features within the park including brilliantly colored hot springs, bubbling mudpots, and steaming fumarole.  Yellowstone contains more geothermal features than any other place on earth.

Old Faithful erupted around 12:30pm (it was one of many eruptions that day).


Afterwards we continued walking around the geothermal area.

Morning Glory Pool is slowly losing its brilliant aqua coloring due to trash and debris being thrown into the pool by visitors.  These items clog the delicate plumbing of the pool causing the temperature to cool and the pool to lose its original color.

Here is are two video montages of some of the geothermal activity we witnessed.

From Old Faithful we continued north.  Here is a short montage of various legs of our 80+ mile (one-way) journey north.

We saw several waterfalls along the way.

On our way to Mammoth Hot Springs we came across a lot of American Bison.  Here is a video montage of several of our sightings.


Mammoth Hot Springs

We spotted a bear on the opposite bank of this lake as we left Mammoth Springs.  It is barely visible in very center of the picture below.

Yellowstone Lake