Yellowstone’s Northeast Entrance road – Tower Jct to Cooke City.
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Crossing the Yellowstone River
Northeast Entrance Road
Crystal Creek/Lamar River
Lamar Ranger Station
Soda Butte
Near Pebble Creek
Soda Butte Creek
Northeast Entrance
The Northeast Entrance road passes thru beautiful Lamar Valley, with views of the Absaroka Mountains towering above you. Soda Butte is a terrace of calcim carbonate and was formed by hot water dissolving the underlying limestone and bringing it to the surface.
The East Entrance Road passes thru some of the most beatuiful alpine scenery in all of Yellowstone. The entrace is at 7,200 feet and the road climbs to 8,541 feet. Sylvan Lake is a popular stop along the East Entrance Road.
The South Entrance to Yellowstone leads from Grand Tetons National Park and the Rockefeller Memorial Parkway. A short distance from the south entrance is Moose Falls. Here Crawfish Creek tumbles down from the plateau toward the deep canyon of the Lewis River. Lewis Falls is another beautiful spot as it plunges 37 feet.
Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest most dynamic in all of Yellowstone. It’s star feature is Echinus Geyser. Echinus erupts to heights of 75 feet with an interval between 25 and 45 minutes.
Here at Mammoth Hot Springs, water doesn’t erupt like in the geyser basins but flows, gently from cracks. Hot water dissolves the underlying limestone and
As we head north from canyon the road climbs to Dunraven Pass (8,856 feet) and views of Mount Washburn. .
Much of this section follows the beautiful Yellowstone River. The Mud Volcano are contains many interesting thermal features. Shown here is the Dragons Mouth.
Beautiful Yellowstone Lake is the largest at this high of an elevation. It is 20 miles long and 14 miles across and covers an area of 139 square miles. It has an average depth of 137 feet with the maximum depth being 320 feet.