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Painting of Yellowstone by Heinrich C. Berann. Aerial view of the entire park from the north, looking south. Mouse over the picture and click on an area of interest.
Yellowstone Natural Bridge Yellowstone Natural Bridge area. Yellowstone Natural Bridge is a natural arch in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.The arch is at an elevation of 7,983 feet (2,433 m) and can be reached by hiking a little more than a mile from the Bridge Bay marina parking lot.
The first bridge on this site was built in 1903. Chittenden describes the process in his 1915 history of Yellowstone: The Arch Bridge over the Yellowstone. Until 1903 there was no bridge across the Yellowstone in the vicinity of the Falls and the right bank of the Grand Canyon was practically inaccessible to the public.
The Grand Loop Road is a historic district which encompasses the primary road system in Yellowstone National Park.Much of the 140-mile (230 km) system was originally planned by Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the early days of the park, when it was under military administration.
Sunlight Creek begins in the Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains and then flows east into the Sunlight Basin. The creek then flows through a granite canyon carved by the creek, Sunlight Gorge, where it is crossed by the Sunlight Creek Bridge, the highest bridge in the state of Wyoming. [2]
The wilderness lies on the west side of the Continental Divide in the Wind River Range and contains Gannett Peak; at 13,809 feet (4,209 m) [3] it is the tallest mountain in Wyoming. The wilderness is a part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles.
Wyoming Highway 296 (WYO 296) also known as the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway is a 45.96-mile-long (73.97 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Wyoming.It follows the route taken by Chief Joseph as he led the Nez Perce out of Yellowstone National Park and into Montana in 1877 during their attempt to flee the U.S. Cavalry and escape into Canada.
The district comprises Yellowstone National Park's former North Entrance Road from Gardiner, Montana to the park headquarters in Mammoth, Wyoming, a distance of a little over five miles (8.0 km). This original North Entrance Road was the first major road in the park, necessary to join the U.S. Army station at Fort Yellowstone to the Northern ...