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 …
Driving north from the Tetons into Yellowstone National Park, our first stop was the West Thumb hot springs area; no geysers but lots of hot features (nice to get bathed in the steam, as the weather was cold at the beginning of our Yellowstone trip!). The area is against Lake Yellowstone (and sometimes within it!) and gives a nice introduction to geothermal features …
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