Old Faithful erupts every 65 minutes and A Yellowstone resident

Old Faithful erupts every 65 minutes

Old Faithful erupts every 65 minutes: Old Faithful, the most famous site in the park, is 16 miles (26km) south of Madison Junction. This is the geyser that you can rely on to blow every65 minutes or so. Some geysers in the park are larger, but none is as dependable as
Old Faithful, which erupts the most frequently of them all. Another Visitors' Center nearby has excellent audiovisual exhibits to explain the phenomenon. This is also the region of three of the park's most active geyser basins, named simply Upper, Midway, and Lower. Be on the lookout, too, for some intriguing, smelly mud pots. These vats of hot, soupy clay are activated by a steam vent or fumarole.

To escape the crowds that gather at Old Faithful, take the Loop east over to West Thumb (junction with the southern park entrance road, the John D. Rockefeller Memorial  Highway) on the shore of beautiful Yellowstone Lake. Within strict limitations, you are allowed to fish for cut-
throat trout, averaging 18in (46cm). Boats and tackle can be rented either at Grant Village on the lake's southwest tip or at Fishing Bridge on the north shore. Don't forget that you're competing for the fish with otters, osprey, hawks, and grizzly bears, as well as with coyotes hanging around for what others drop.

Old Faithful erupts

From the lake's north shore, the Loop follows the Yellow- stone River down to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Approaching from the south, you catch first sight of the cascading waters of the 109ft (33m) Upper Falls. Parka little farther on near the short trail that will take you to Inspiration Point, where you can survey the even more dramatic 308ft (94m) Lower Falls and a panorama of the winding 24-mile (40km) long canyon. It drops 1,200 to 4,000ft (360 to 1,200m) to the banks of the Yellowstone River. The canyon walls are impregnated with arsenic sulfides that produce every shade and variation of yellow, wonderfully enhanced by the brilliant greens of the surrounding lodgepole-pine forests.

A Yellowstone resident

At the northern end of the canyon is Tower Fall (near the junction with the northeast park entrance road from Cooke City). On a sunny day at noon, you'll almost certainly see a double rainbow across the 132ft (40m) high falls. And if you think that the huge perched boulder is about to tumble down, 'discoverers' of the Tower Fall on August 27, 1870, placed bets that it would be gone by the following day.

East of Tower Junction, off the Lamar Valley Road, lies a fascinating petrified forest. These solid trees, still upright after millions of years, include sycamores, magnolias, maples, oaks, redwoods, walnuts, and willows-their markings still visible. This suggests that Yellowstone was once a great deal warmer than it is today. The forest was covered by volcanic ash rich in silica with which groundwater impregnated the trees and plants, eventually turning them to stone.
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