Tour Stops

West Entrance Gate

West Entrance Station Yellowstone National Park

Madison Junction

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...

North Entrance Gate

North Entrance Station Yellowstone National Park

Mammoth Hot Springs

Exploring Mammoth'swhite travertine terraes is a bit like stepping out onto another planet. Be sure to take time to visit the Upper Loop ...

Barronette Peak

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...

Soda Butte

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...

Lamar Valley

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...

East Entrance Gate

East Entrance Station Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Lake

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...

Avalanche Peak

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...

Fishing Bridge

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...

South Entrance Gate

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...

Moose Falls

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...

Lewis Lake

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...

Grant Village

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...

Rustic Falls

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...

Sheepeater Cliffs

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...

Obsidian Cliff

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

Roaring Mountain

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,...

Virginia Cascades

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...

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

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...

Tower Fall

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...

Hellroaring Trailhead

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...

Norris Geyser Basin

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...

Artist's Paint Pots Trail

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...

Gibbon Falls

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...

Firehole Canyon and Falls

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...

Grand Prismatic Spring

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

Fountain Paint Pots

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...

Biscuit Basin

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...

Old Faithful

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....

Kepler Cascades

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...

Isa Lake and the Continental Divide

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...

West Thumb Geyser Basin

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

LeHardy Rapids

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...

Mud Volcano

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...

Hayden Valley

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...

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