Astonishing natural beauty a waits as you step inside Yellowstone National Park. This Park spreads over three states in North America- Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. It was the First National Park in America, said to be the first National Park in the world.
Yellowstone National Park Sits on Super volcano in North America. This is the reason, why you can see so many natural Geysers in this park. With so many awesome places to see in this National Park- geysers, waterfalls, creeks, lakes, rivers, rock formations, canyons; it becomes hard to decide which ones to go to first. The best tip for Yellowstone is to get a booking for stay few months before hand. It is always full. If you make a sudden plan to go there, you have to stay outside the park. Another tip would put lots of sun screen if you are going in summer.
Grand Prismatic Spring of the Yellowstone is an awe inspiring site. It is the largest hot spring in the United States. It has rainbow colors. The pretty blue color of the center of the pool makes it so painting worthy with oranges, yellows, red and brown hues. There are billions of colorful microorganisms- called Extremophiles that live in extreme heat conditions. These are the ones giving beautiful colors around hot springs. Extremophiles that live in hot springs are called Thermophiles (heat-lovers).
Old Faithful Geyser is the most famous and must see the geyser of Yellowstone. It can go up to 180 feet at times. It usually erupts after one and half hour. Such an awesome site, when it erupts. The crowd goes crazy when it erupts.
Upper Yellowstone Falls and lower falls of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone have beauty beyond words. There is a bit hike down for lower falls but it is totally worth it. At the lower falls, you will experience standing right on the edge from where the falls go down. Upper Falls view point is also picture worthy.
Yellowstone Lake is the pristine, untouched nature at its best. It is such a big lake at high altitude. It is such a tranquil and peaceful lake. You can see fishes in it and wild life around it. Gibbon Falls is 84 feet long waterfalls on the Gibbon River. They are easily viewable from a road side point not too much hike.
Castle geyser can go up to 90 feet and has the largest cone. It is may be the oldest geyser here as it is thousands of years old. Excelsior Geyser was the largest geyser in the world in the 1880s. It could go up to 300 feet up and 300 feet wide.
Firehole River falls go 40 feet down between canyons created in 800-foot lava walls. Easy road side accessibility to the falls, no tough hike. Abyss Pool is a small, yet full of colors spring right on the bank of Yellowstone Lake. It is the point where you can see hot springs and geysers falling into the lake.
If you have more time on your hand, some worth seeing places at Yellowstone are the Sheepeater cliff, Undine Falls, Kepler Cascades, Lewis Falls, Lamar Valley, Grand Geyser, Uncle Tom’s Trail, Beehive Geyser, Roosevelt Arch, Upper Geyser Basin and Norris Geyser Basin. All in all, Yellowstone National Park is a tourist’s heaven, who loves nature. It has such unique amazing features that you would definitely want to visit here again.
