Firehole Lake Loop Drive Yellowstone National Park
Between Madison Junction and Old Faithful is a 3.3 mile Firehole Lake Loop Drive Brisk fall morning on an early drive. Spent twenty minutes watching a swan feeding on the lower Firehole River.
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- Passing by the Firehole River before turning off on to Firehole Lake Loop Drive
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- It's a nice view this morning
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- Enjoying the view as we turn on to the scenic loop
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- Beautiful contrast
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- Minerals from Firehole Springs are beautiful
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- Flowing out of Firehole Spring
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- Surprise Pool is one of the many cool thermal features on the loop.
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- Surprise Pool is so very clear, it's amazing
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- Minerals adding to palette of color on the landscape
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- Nature does some beautiful work in Yellowstone National Park
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- Off to another geyser pool amazing short drive.
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- Having eruptions every ten to fourteen hours Great Fountain Geyser. Eruptions are a hundred feet tall, once in a while reaching two hundred feet.
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- Colors of the sky and earth in Yellowstone National Park are amazing. This is Great Fountain Geyser
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- Pattern along the edge of Great Fountain Geyser
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- White Dome Geyser from a distance.
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- It's amazing how the minerals build up into an ever growing dome. Its Alive, Its Alive
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- Information sign about White Dome Geyser
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- White Dome Geyser is a older geyser. Dome build up is an indicator of age and it's almost sealed it's self closed. When it erupts they last about a minute and reach 30 feet into the air. Eruptions happen often around every fifteen to thirty minutes.
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- Firehole Lake with a little steam, it was a bit cool this fall morning
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- Sitting at the corner of Firehole and the road out watching the morning mist
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- Another shot of Firehole Lake on the Firehole Lake Loop Drive
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- Bison on Firehole Lake Loop Drive across road from Firehole Lake
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- Bison out feeding, working on some fat build up for food storage before the snows start falling
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- Down the road beyond the mist
Firehole Lake Loop Drive Other Geysers on the Route
Here’s a short list you ought to get out of the car and take the time to view. Will you really be back this way again?
Pink Dome Geyser holds a historical record of blowing for two days. It erupts usually every six hours at the longest stretch. Eruptions reach thirty feet and last thirty minutes to three hours.
Steady Geyser is in the shore of Black Warrior Lake across from Firehole Lake.
Hot Cascade, cascades from Black Warrior Lake into Hot Lake.
A couple of other thermal features are Young Hopeful Geyser, and Artesia Geyser. This is a great side trip most miss, but you ought to not.
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Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem offers a lifetime of outdoor, camping, fly fishing, backpacking and photography expeditions. Come fly fish the Gibbon, Lamar, Firehole, Gallatin, and Madison Rivers inside Yellowstone National Park. Or a Float trip with a fly fishing guide down the Yellowstone River.
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