Yellowstone Falls

by Judi Dressler

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Yellowstone Falls

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Judi Dressler

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Lower Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park is a majestic and grand waterfall, spilling down 308 feet into the river below. I was thrilled to be able to photograph it, and waited almost two hours for this shot, when the sun finally touched the tops of the cliffs on the right, lighting up the mist rising from the water below.

Lower Falls is the biggest waterfall in Yellowstone, is the most famous in the Park. There are numerous views of the Falls from both the east - Inspiration Point, Grandview Point and Lookout Point - and west - Artists Point - sides of the Grand Canyon, most of which require only a short walk or virtually no walk to see. The three-quaters of a mile trail to the top of the Falls is a must, as the experience of standing atop the Falls is one of the most breathtaking experiences in the entire Park.

The canyon’s colors were created by hot water acting on volcanic rock. It was not these colors, but the river’s yellow banks at its distant confluence with the Missouri River, that occasioned the Minnetaree Indian name which French trappers translated as roche jaune, yellow stone. The canyon has been rapidly downcut more than once, perhaps by great glacial outburst floods. Little deepening takes place today.

Photo taken in Yellowstone National Park, WY

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