Yellowstone National ParkParking for large vehicles in Yellowstone National Park
I am not positive but I think this picture was taken at the visitor center at Madison Junction in Yellowstone National Park.
Lewis River near the south entrance to Yellowstone National Park
This is the Lewis River after it emerges from an impressive canyon. The Lewis River is an 18.1-mile-long tributary of the Snake River that is located within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The river is named for Meriwether Lewis, commander of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Lewis River begins at the southern end of Shoshone Lake and flows southerly approximately 3 miles to Lewis Lake. The river reemerges at the southern end of Lewis Lake and flows in a general southerly direction through a steep canyon roughly paralleling the south entrance road toward the south entrance of the park. Below Lewis Lake the river passes over several cascades and waterfalls including Lewis Falls. Shortly before leaving the park, the Lewis River merges with the Snake River, changing the course of the Snake southward. The Snake soon flows out of Yellowstone into Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Lake.
Vertical cliff cut through Rhyolite by the Lewis River near south entrance to Yellowstone National Park
Just north of the south entrance to Yellowstone National Park the Lewis River cuts an impressive canyon through very hard rhyolite. The Lewis River is hundreds of feet below in this picture but you can see the impressive rhyolite canyon wall on the opposite side of the river in this picture.
Madison Valley in Yellowstone National Park
That is a limestone cliff with the attendant talus slope on the far side of Madison Valley in Yellowstone National Park. Much of the year this valley is covered with elk but this is early July and the elk are back in the lodgepole pine forest with their young. As soon as the young are able to fend for themselves the elk herd will return to the Madison Valley. Along the Firehole River as it passes through one of the Geyser Basins
This is the Firehole River passing through a hotspring or Geyser Basin near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park. The white spots on the far side of the Firehole River are mineral deposits. Extremely hot water in these thermal areas reaches the surface laden with minerals dissolved from the underlying rock. As the hot water evaporates it leaves behind those dissolved minerals. That is what you are seeing in those light colored areas on the far side of the Firehole River. Dead trees in an area of thermal activity
Thermal activity in this area has killed the trees. As hot water, laden with minerals, gets to the surface and evaporates the minerals are left behind. Those minerals are the white areas you see in this picture.
Limestone cliff along the Madison River
This magnificent limestone cliff was created by the Madison River. Well there had to be major uplift in this area that kept pushing the sedimentary rocks upward but as the sedimentary rocks were pushed upward the Madison River kept cutting a path. It has taken millions and millions of years for this to occur. Lodgepole pine forest near the south entrance to Yellowstone National Park
Much of Yellowstone National Park is lodgepole pine forest This area of Yellowstone was not affected by the fires of 1988. Patches of snow was still on the ground as we passed through here the second week in July.
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