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From Old Faithful Village to West Thumb Junction

editor — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000

From Old Faithful to West Thumb is a distance of about 19 miles (31 km), as measured from the visitor center. Worth stopping for on the way are Kepler Cascades, Lone Star Geyser Trail, and Isa Lake at the western crossing of the Continental Divide, as well as the views from Shoshone Point and from above West Thumb Junction. Old Faithful Village to West Thumb junction name of the 12-year-old son of Wyoming Territory’s Governor John Hoyt. The boy was with his father in a group searching for suitable routes from Wyoming into the park in 1881, and he was

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Map Livingston to the North Entrance

editor — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 23:28:00 +0000

To drive to Yellowstone Park from Livingston, take U.S. Highway 89 from the center of Livingston or from Interstate 90 just south of town. In about 3 miles (5 km), you pass through Rock Canyon, which has been cut by the Yellowstone River and is sometimes called Gate of the Mountains. At the southern end of the canyon, look to the northwest to see cliffs with numerous layers of sedimentary rocks that tilt rather sharply. These roughly 400-million-year-old rocks are tilted because of deformation in this area at about the time of the major uplift that produced the Beartooth Range;

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