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ward. Early surveyors even thought for a while that there was a fifth finger. When it turned
out that the small body of water was not connected to the larger lake, it was named Delusion
Lake.
West Thumb Junction to Fishing Bridge Junction
You could take a steamboat from West Thumb to a dock at Lake Hotel from the 1890s until
soon after automobiles were allowed into the park in 1915. At that time the steamboat line
was abandoned as unprofitable.
Until 1989, there were various facilities for visitors at West Thumb, but these were moved
to Grant Village to separate them from the fragile hot spring area. It has been rumored that
