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Look down, if you dare, among the nooks and crannies of rock to try to spot nesting os-
preys.
Another phenomenal viewing platform can be found at
Lookout Point,
where visitors
can gaze from afar at the thundering Lower Falls of the Yellowstone. Visitors who want to
get closer to the spray of the falls and don't mind a long hike down, and back up again,
can head toward the base of the falls at
Red Rock Point.
It's a 0.5-mile trip one-way that
drops more than 500 vertical feet. There is another platform at the top of the 308-foot falls
aptly named the
Brink of the Lower Falls.
This lookout also involves a 0.5-mile hike and
a 600-foot elevation loss. The
Upper Falls
are just over one-third the size of the lower falls,
at 109 feet, but they are worth a gander and can be easily accessed at the
Brink of the Up-
per Falls.
Mountain man Jim Bridger purportedly regaled friends with tales of the Upper
Falls as early as 1846 and urged them to see it for themselves.
Osprey nest in the rocky walls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
From the
South Rim,
visitors can see the Upper Falls from the
Upper Falls Viewpoint.
A trail that dates back to 1898,
Uncle Tom's Trail
still takes hardy hikers to the base of the
Lower Falls. The trail down loses 500 vertical feet through a series of 300 stairs and paved
