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more mud-filled springs, one a growler that churns like a washing machine. Watch your step
and keep small children firmly under control. After about another mile (1.6 km), you cross
Pipeline Creek, where pink monkeyflowers (Mimulus lewisii) grow.
Fern Cascades Trail. You may encounter some downed lodgepoles on this moderately
steep 2.5-mile (4 km) loop, which takes you to some rather small white-water rapids on Iron
Spring Creek. Access to the trail is through the employee housing area across the Grand Loop
Road from the clinic and ranger station parking lot. The trail intersects with a part of the
Howard Eaton Trail that passes Lone Star Geyser (see page 106 for a shorter trail to Lone
Star).
Old Faithful Geyser
Old Faithful Geyser**
Old Faithful [GEO.19], the most famous geyser in the world, was named when members of
the Washburn Expedition noticed its regularity. This group of men explored the area in 1870
and helped to encourage Congress to set it aside as a park.
Not only is Old Faithful Geyser the top priority for most visitors to see here, it's ex-
tremely accessible. Parking is close by, and generous boardwalks and benches border two sides
of the geyser's mound. If you happen to be in the inn when the geyser erupts, you can watch it
from the porch roof just off the first balcony. In fact, Old Faithful, true to its name, will prob-
ably erupt for you even if your time here is very limited.
Haynes Guides from the 1940s on offered some advice about photographing Old Faithful,
suggesting that the photographer not stand too close to it and wait to catch the best part of the
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