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Yellowstone Lake Recreation

editor — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 07:00:00 +0000

Swimming in Yellowstone Lake is strongly discouraged, even forbidden at West Thumb. This is due to the extremely cold water after all, the lake’s elevation is nearly 8000 feet (3400 m). On a recent hot July day the surface water temperature behind Fishing Bridge Visitor Center was 55°F (13°C), but this was rare, and lakes like this one have colder layers beneath the surface. Signs at Bridge Bay are explicit: Warning water extremely cold. Survival time limited to twenty minutes. Boating is allowed from several launch sites, but motorboats are restricted to Grant Village and Bridge Bay Marina. Permits and

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Yellowstone Lake

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:30:00 +0000

No writer has better described Yellowstone Lake than did renowned naturalist John Muir in an Atlantic Monthly article of 1898: It is about twenty miles long and fifteen wide, and lies at a height of nearly 8000 feet above the level of the sea, amid dense black forests and snowy mountains. Around its winding, wavering shores, closely forested and picturesquely varied with promontories and bays, the distance is more than 100 miles_ It is full of trout, and a vast multitude of birds swans, pelicans, geese, ducks, cranes, herons, curlews, plovers, snipe feed in it and upon its shores; and

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