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Elevation. 2,329 m (7,641 ft) Artist Point is an overlook point on the edge of a cliff [2] on the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The point is located east-northeast of Yellowstone Falls on the Yellowstone River. Artist Point was originally named in 1883 by Frank Jay Haynes who improperly ...
Location. The Chittenden Memorial Bridge is a 120 feet (37 m) concrete and steel arch bridge across the Yellowstone River just upstream from the Upper Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park. First constructed in 1903 as a Melan arch bridge by park engineer Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the US Army Corps of Engineers, the bridge was ...
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is the first large canyon on the Yellowstone River downstream from Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The canyon is approximately 24 miles (39 km) long, between 800 and 1,200 ft (240 and 370 m) deep and from 0.25 to 0.75 mi (0.40 to 1.21 km) wide. [1]
Yellowstone Falls consist of two major waterfalls on the Yellowstone River, within Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.As the Yellowstone river flows north from Yellowstone Lake, it leaves the Hayden Valley and plunges first over Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River and then a quarter mile (400 m) downstream over Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, at which point it then enters ...
Mountain type. Stratovolcano. Volcanic arc / belt. Absaroka Range. Eagle Peak is a mountain in the Absaroka Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming and at 11,372 feet (3,466 m) is the highest point in Yellowstone National Park. [1][3][4] It is located about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the southeast arm of Yellowstone Lake.
Artist Point, at the east end of the Mount Baker Highway, closes to cars near Heather Meadows after fall’s first major snowstorm. ... A total of 508 inches of snow fell at the Mt. Baker Ski Area ...
Elevation. 7,306 feet (2,227 m) [ 2 ] Type. Mud pot. Fountain Paint Pot. The Fountain Paint Pot (often pluralized) is a mud pot located in Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. The Fountain Paint Pot is named for the reds, yellows and browns of the mud in this area. The differing colors are derived from oxidation states of the iron ...
The Yellowstone hotspot, which now sits in northwest Wyoming and is the namesake of Yellowstone National Park, once called present-day McDermitt, Nevada, home. Over the course of millions of years ...