Driving north once more, we reach the Middle Basin (with famous Grand Prismatic Spring) and Lower Basin (with Fountain Paint Pot); the cold weather made for so much steam from the hot springs that our view and photos were nowhere close to the famous images – even walking up to the recently added Grand Prismatic Spring view; but still the area is beautiful and snow on the Bison added to our day!
Within a couple miles walk of Old Faithful are many geothermal features – more geysers, hot springs and colorful pools, so much natural beauty! Photos don’t really capture all that we enjoyed, but here’s some anyway …
This really is a must visit area of Yellowstone, despite the traffic (because everyone does visit!)
We stayed in the Old Faithful Inn to be close to the geyser; I can’t recommend the inn itself (poor service, old rooms with zero internet and in one room not even drapes on the windows!) but the location is perfect for seeing the Upper Basin area of Yellowstone – and we were greeted with an Old Faithful eruption almost as soon as we arrived!
Next morning, it had snowed and was really cold – except for the heat of the geyser of course …
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