West Entrance Station Yellowstone National Park

At Madison Junction, you'll find a campground, restroom facilities, an information station and a trailside museum.  From here you can head south to Old Faithful and the Upper Geyser Basin, or head Northeast towards Mammoth and Canyon Villages, as well as the northern part of the park.

North Entrance Station Yellowstone National Park

Exploring Mammoth'swhite travertine terraes is a bit like stepping out onto another planet. Be sure to take time to visit the Upper Loop Driver as well as the 1.5-mile Lower Loop boadwalk tour. Some highlights in this basin include the Orange Spring Mound, Minerva Terrace, and Jupiter Terrace.

Barronette Peak, elevation 10,354 feet, is a mountain peak in the Absaroka Range, in the northeast section of Yellowstone National Park. The peak is named for Collins Jack Baronette.

Soda Butte, a striking hot spring cone about two and a half miles above the mouth of Soda Butte Creek, is the feature that suggested this place name.

The Lamar Valley is located in the remote Northeast section of the park, offering visitors one of the best places to view the largest variety of wildlife in the entire ecosystem

East Entrance Station Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Lake is the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park. The lake is 7,732 feet (2,357 m) above sea level and covers 136 square miles (350 km2) with 110 miles (180 km) of shoreline.

Across the road from the parking area and to the right of the creek, the trail enters the forest and begins its steep ascent 2,100 feet in 2.1 miles (3.3 km). In just over a mile, it arrives at the base of the large bowl of Avalanche Peak, then continues to the left and switches back over large talus slopes to an open level area below the summit.

The original bridge was built in 1902. It was a rough-hewn corduroy log bridge with a slightly different alignment than the current bridge. The existing bridge was built in 1937. Fishing Bridge was historically a tremendously popular place to fish. Angling from the bridge was quite good, due to the fact that it was a major spawning area for cutthroat trout. However, because of the decline of the cutthroat population (in part, a result of this practice), the bridge was closed to fishing in 1973.

Located at the boundary between Yellowstone National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, rangers staff the entrance gate providing visitor information and selling entrance permits.

Moose Falls is a plunge type waterfall on Crawfish Creek in Yellowstone National Park. The waterfall was named in 1885 by members of the Arnold Hague Geologic Survey for the plentiful moose found in the southern sections of the park.

Just a few steps off the road lie Lewis Falls, named for Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It’s a convenient photo op and a good chance to stretch your legs.

Grant Village is located on the southwestern shore of beautiful Yellowstone Lake. It is named in honor of President Ulysses S. Grant who established Yellowstone Park as America's first national park in 1872.

Rustic Falls is a textured 47ft waterfall next to the former Golden Gate Road west of Bunsen Peak and south of the Mammoth Junction in Yellowstone National Park

Sheepeater Cliff is made up of columnar basalt deposited by lava flows roughly 500,000 years ago. The Gardner River flows through the valley, exposing the flow and forming the cliff. The basalt of Sheepeater Cliff are known as columnar basalt due to the hexagonal fracture lines that formed in the basalt when it cooled.

Obsidian Cliff, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996, is located on the Grand Loop Road between Mammoth and Norris.

Roaring Mountain is a large, acidic thermal area (solfatara) that contains many steam vents (fumaroles). In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the number, size, and power of the fumaroles was much greater than today.

Virginia Cascades, is a cascade type waterfall on the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park. Virginia Cascades is located just south of the Norris-Canyon road approximately 2.5 miles east of Norris Junction. A one-way road provides access to the north side of the cascades.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River expresses the park's complex geologic history in dramatic colors and shapes. Puffs of steam mark hydrothermal features in the canyon's walls. The Upper and Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River add to the grandeur of the unique natural treasure.Experience the canyon from a variety of overlooks, at different times of day, and at different seasons. A number of trails and walkways wind along the rims and down partway into the canyon.

Tower Fall is a waterfall on Tower Creek in the northeastern region of Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Approximately 1,000 yards upstream from the creek's confluence with the Yellowstone River, the fall plunges 132 feet. Its name comes from the rock pinnacles at the top of the fall.

Trail begins with a steep descent to the Yellowstone River Suspension Bridge, then crosses a sagebrush plateau, and drops down to Hellroaring Creek. Both the Yellowstone River and Hellroaring Creek are popular fishing areas.

Don't pass by Yellowtone's oldest and hottest geothermal basin! Norris Geyser Basin has over 100 hydrothermal features spread along a 1.5-mile boardwalk. Some big-ticket items are the Steamboat geyser, the Emerald Spring, and the Prcelain Spring.

This 1.0 mile boardwalk is one of the best basins for mudpots--some of the most exciting geothermal features in the park. The colorful mudpots come in a varied palette of pastel colors, from pink to gray to baby blue.

Gibbon Falls is a waterfall on the Gibbon River in northwestern Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Gibbon Falls has a drop of approximately 84 feet. The falls are located roadside, 4.7 miles upstream from the confluence of the Gibbon and Firehole Rivers at Madison Junction on the Grand Loop Road.

Firehole Falls is a waterfall on the Firehole River in southwestern Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The falls are located approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) upstream from the confluence of the Firehole and Gibbon Rivers at Madison Junction. Firehole Falls has a drop of approximately 40 feet (12 m). The falls are located within Firehole Canyon on Firehole Canyon Drive, a one-way road that parallels the main Madison Junction to Old Faithful road.

Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest natural hot spring in the United States and located inside Yellowstone National Park!

Along Fountain Paint Pot Trail you will see various hydrothermal features that are expressions of Yellowstone’s still active volcano. Within this geologic system, each type of thermal feature is represented. They can be grouped into two general categories—those with a great deal of water (hot springs and geysers) and those with limited water (mudpots and fumaroles). Despite their structural similarities, no two features are exactly alike.

Biscuit Basin is traversed by an easy 0.6-mile (1-km) lollipop loop boardwalk trail, which leads past many fascinating hydrothermal features, such as Sapphire Pool, Avoca Spring, and Jewel Geyser.

Watching Old Faithful Geyser erupt is a Yellowstone National Park tradition. People from all over the world have journeyed here to watch this famous geyser. The park’s wildlife and scenery might be as well-known today, but it was the unique thermal features like Old Faithful Geyser that inspired the establishment of Yellowstone as the world’s first national park in 1872.

Kepler Cascades is a waterfall on the Firehole River in southwestern Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The cascades are located approximately 2.5 miles south of Old Faithful. The cascades drop approximately 150 feet over multiple drops. The longest drop is 50 feet.

Isa Lake at at Craig Pass was, at one time, probably the only lake on Earth that drained naturally backwards to two oceans, the east side draining to the Pacific and the west side to the Atlantic. If this still occurs, it is only at the peak of snow melt after winters with deep snowfall.

The West Thumb Geyser Basin, including Potts Basin to the north, is the largest geyser basin on the shores of Yellowstone Lake.

Located on the Yellowstone River, the longest undammed river in the contiguous United States. In spring, you might be able to see Yellowstone cutthroat trout leaping upstream at LeHardys Rapids. Yellowstone cutthroat trout are the most widespread native trout of the park and were the dominant fish species here prior to Euroamerican settlement.

Early explorers to Yellowstone described this features as a “most repulsive and terrifying site.” It is a volcano-like cone, 30 by 30 feet high and wide (9 x 9 m) with mud that erupts and covers tall trees. When Nathaniel P. Langford, the first superintendent of Yellowstone, visited in 1870, he saw “a seething, bubbling mass of mud.” It is likely a violent eruption blew out the cone’s side, leaving the crater you see today. The water constantly undercuts the back wall and is rich in iron sulfides.

Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. Bison live year-round in the Hayden Valley. Winters are often severe, with deep snows and temperatures reaching -44 degrees F (-42 degrees C). Bison from the central herd congregate in the Hayden Valley for breeding. As of July 2015, the Hayden Valley subpopulation consisted of 1,300 bison. Wolves and grizzly bears are the only large predators of adult bison. Dead bison provide an important source of food for scavengers and other carnivores.