Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park

Parking 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.

Vertical cliff cut through Rhyolite by the Lewis River near the 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 Gyeser Basins

This is the Firehole River passing through a hotspring or Gyeser 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 disolved from the underlying rock. As the hot water evaporates it leaves behind those disolved 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 forrest near the south entrance to Yellowstone National Park

Much of Yellowstone National Park is lodgepole pine forrest. 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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