• Visitors enjoy an eruption of Old Faithful from the Inn.

    Yellowstone

    National Park ID,MT,WY

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Porcelain Basin

Porcelain Basin looking west to Mt. Holmes
 

Parts of the whitish rock-sheet before you pulsate from the pressure of steam and boiling water beneath them.  A number of geysers and other features here have been born suddenly in small hydrothermal explosions.  Some features are ephemeral, their activity lasting a few hours, days, or weeks.  A few others have become relatively permanent fixtures in the scene.


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Did You Know?

Lake Trout Illustration

Lake trout are an invasive species of fish that is decimating the native cutthroat trout population in Yellowstone Lake.