Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Grand Prismatic Spring
Simply put, the park's most beautiful thermal feature, a
swimming-pool-sized spring ringed by an incredible array of rainbow colors (
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A backcountry geyser
There's something really special about watching a geyser away
from the crowds of Old Faithful. Hike out to Lone Star or another backcountry geyser for
your own private show (
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Mammoth Hot Springs
The graceful tiered terraces and colorful coral-like formations
have a subtle beauty (
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Scenic Drives
There's hardly a mile in Yellowstone country that isn't pull-off-the-road, drop-dead gor-
geous. If we had to choose our favorite drives, these are the ones that make us almost
happy to pay park prices for our gas.
Beartooth Hwy
An astounding drive above the tree line from Red Lodge to Cooke City,
known as the most scenic road in America (
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Gallatin Valley
Blending scenes from Robert Redford's
A River Runs Through It
with
twin mountain ranges and some lovely ranchlands (
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Paradise Valley
Rolling ranchlands and snowy peaks create the perfect approach from
Livingston to Yellowstone's north entrance. It's not called Paradise for nothin' (
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Signal Mountain Summit Rd
Dramatic panoramas over the Snake River to the Tetons,
from 800ft above Jackson Hole's valley floor (
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Hwy 191 & Teton Park Rd
More fantastic views of the Tetons from the flats of Jackson
Hole Valley, with the chance of spotting pronghorn, deer or moose. (
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