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Yellowstone Falls consist of two major waterfalls on the Yellowstone River, within Yellowstone National Park.
Lower Falls is the largest volume waterfall in the Rocky Mountains which cascades down from a 590,000 year old Rhyolite lava flow. It is 308 feet (94 m) high, nearly twice as high as Niagara Falls and is the second most visited sight in the park. after Old Faithful Geyser at number one.
A view of Lower Yellowstone Falls from Artist Point in Yellowstone National Park. This on the Artist Point Trail on the South Rim. #NPS #YellowstoneNationalPark #LowerYellowstoneFalls #ArtistPointTrail
The Lower Yellowstone River Falls in Yellowstone National Park. This is from Lookout Point. People can be seen on the Brink of Lower Yellowstone Falls at the scenic overlook at the top right of the falls. They look tiny but they're there. These falls are higher than Niagara Falls but not as wide. This is close to Canyon Village where they have restaurants and lodging. The walk to Lookout Point is short there are some stairs though. To me this is the highlight of Yellowstone National Park. The Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls are only a couple miles apart. If you're in good shape you can venture down into the canyon on Uncle Tom's Trail. It's 328 steps down the .4 mile trail and a 500 foot drop. It leads to a viewing platform just below the Upper Yellowstone Falls and gives a beautiful view of the falls from inside the canyon. It was closed for maintenance when I was there. #NPS #YellowstoneNationalPark #LowerYellowstoneFalls #waterfalls #cascades #Wasserfälle #nature #Natur #outdoors #hiking #randonnée #Wandern #滝
The wind was howling though the canyon. Rain interspersed with small hail plummeted the earth as I braced myself, determined to capture the power of this amazing waterfall. I don't know if I succeeded but the experience was exhilarating.
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Lower Yellowstone Falls crashes over its facing creating a thunder of sound and an ocean of spray. At 308 ft., it is the largest waterfall in the Rocky Mountain Range. I was impressed at the volume of water as this was late summer, a time when the majestic falls at Yosemite Park are usually reduced to a trickle. I can only imagine the power of this waterfall during spring--not a place for kayakers in any season me thinks.
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At Yellowstone National Park in the autumn. We were fortunate to view this falls from several locations. It occurred to me, as I am sure it did to some of you, that I could spend the entire day here to see what the light looks like at various times at this very location from which this was taken. But, in the end, we all have so many places to go in such limited time that we sometimes fail to put the required time into one particular location. This is a beautiful falls . . . try to allow lots and lots of time for it. I might even suggest shooting after sunset . . . it might at least be worth a try.
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It's a pretty impressive view anyway, but particularly fantasy-like in Winter. The Lower Falls still manage to run through the snow and ice.
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During the spring of 2011, my buddy Duggie and I decided to make a run over to Yosemite Park. We had a particularly wet winter that year. The rivers were swollen and the waterfalls were thunderous. Here, Lower Yosemite Falls drops 320 feet from a rocky ledge. The sound is deafening during early spring when the waterfall peaks in volume. And the spray is omnipresent. Expect to get wet.
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Lower Yellowstone Falls (Chutes Inférieures)
Cascade de la coulée de lave de la rhyolite Canyon, vieille de 590 000 ans, la Lower Yellowstone Falls est la plus grande chute d’eau des montagnes Rocheuses des États-Unis. Ces chutes font 94 mètres de hauteur, soit près de deux fois la hauteur des chutes du Niagara. Le débit des chutes de Lower Yellowstone est cependant bien inférieur à celui des chutes du Niagara, car la rivière Yellowstone ne fait que 21 mètres de large à l'endroit où elle franchit les chutes inférieures, alors que la rivière Niagara mesure 790 mètres de largeur à l'approche de la ligne de crête des chutes.
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Le Grand Canyon de Yellowstone est le premier grand canyon sur la rivière Yellowstone en aval de Yellowstone Falls dans le parc national de Yellowstone au Wyoming. Le canyon mesure environ 39 km de long, entre 240 et 370 mètres de profondeur et de 400 mètres jusqu'à 1 200 mètres de large. Le nom « Yellowstone » (« pierre jaune » en français) provient de la couleur des rochers du grand canyon de Yellowstone (vallée en « V ») qui a été formé lors des dernières glaciations avant d'être fortement érodé par la rivière Yellowstone. Contrairement aux apparences, la couleur des pierres provient de l'altération hydrothermale du fer qu'elles contiennent et non du soufre qui est toutefois présent.
D'après diapositive de juillet 1985.
Of course no trip to Yellowstone would be complete without seeing the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone along with Yellowstone Falls.
Again the light was too harsh, bright and sunny, but I tried to turn the contrast down and it looks acceptable, I think.
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The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, gushing with spring snowmelt. Cascading from the 590,000 year old Canyon Rhyolite lava flow, Lower Yellowstone Falls is the largest volume waterfall in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. These falls are 308 feet (94 m) high, or nearly twice as high as Niagara Falls. The volume of water flowing over Lower Yellowstone Falls can vary from 680 cu ft/s (19 m3/s) in the autumn, to 8,400 cu ft/s (240 m3/s) at peak runoff in late springtime.
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A short 23 second video showing the Lower Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park. #YellowstoneNationalPark #NPS #LowerYellowstoneFalls #waterfalls #Wyoming #cascades #Wasserfälle #滝
The sight and sounds of a couple hundred thousand gallons of water crashing over the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River is quite exciting!
If you look closely at the right side of the waterfall in the previous post you will see the platform on the brink of the falls where I shot this image.
The Yellowstone River gushes over Lower Yellowstone Falls on a cool windy morning.
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View of Lower Yellowstone Falls from Artist Point at Yellowstone National Park. Lower Yellowstone Falls is 308 feet (93.9 meters) high--September 2, 2009
Yellowstone Falls consist of two major waterfalls on the Yellowstone River, within Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. As the Yellowstone river flows north from Yellowstone Lake, it leaves the Hayden Valley and plunges first over Upper Yellowstone Falls and then a quarter mile (400 m) downstream over Lower Yellowstone Falls, at which point it then enters the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which is up to 1,000 feet (304 m) deep. Lower Yellowstone Falls: Cascading from the 590,000 year old Canyon Rhyolite lava flow, Lower Yellowstone Falls is the largest volume waterfall in the Rocky Mountains of the United States.[citation needed] These falls (44°43′05″N 110°29′46″W) are 308 feet (94 m) high, or nearly twice as high as Niagara Falls. The volume of water flowing over Lower Yellowstone Falls can vary from 680 cu ft/s (19 m3/s) in the autumn, to 8,400 cu ft/s (240 m3/s) at peak runoff in late springtime.[citation needed] The flow rate of Lower Yellowstone Falls is much less than that of Niagara Falls, as the Yellowstone River is only 70 feet (21 m) at the point at which it goes over the lower falls, whereas the Niagara River is 2,600 feet (790 m) in width as it approaches the crest line of Horseshoe Falls. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Falls]
Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of its most popular features. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park]
Pure power--
Winter average flow (63,500 gallons/sec): Enough to fill 1 Olympic pool every 10.4 seconds.
Spring peak flow (≈ 600,000 gallons/sec): Enough to fill 1 Olympic pool every 1.1 seconds.
And plenty left over for doing the dishes.
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Lower Yellowstone Falls (308 feet)
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Last July, Ruth Ann and I took a road trip that lasted almost three weeks, involved about 5,900 miles of driving, and included several days in Yellowstone, where we stayed in Lake Yellowstone Hotel. As with our time in Acadia National Park two years ago, we found the crowds greater in than at the time of our previous visit (13 years for Acadia, 24 years for Yellowstone). In July 1995, I easily found a place to park near the overlooks for the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, but this year we gave up after driving twice through the area on afternoon. It was still busy in early evening, but we were finally able to park without difficulty. This probably worked out for the best, because I like the subdued tones of these late shots. This was taken from Lookout Point on North Rim Drive; the 308 feet vertical drop of Lower Yellowstone Falls makes them the tallest falls in the park.
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View of Lower Yellowstone Falls from near Artist Point at Yellowstone National Park. Lower Yellowstone Falls is 308 feet (93.9 meters) high--September 2, 2009
The Lower Yellowstone Falls still has a lot of snow and ice as the park slowly transitions from winter to spring.
From the South Rim trail.
Artist Point gets the crowds, but I prefer the South Rim as you're that much closer. A pity that Uncle Tom's trail is now closed, as that brought you right next to the falls.
Happy Flowing Falls Friday. I took this a couple years ago and just stumbled across the file the other day. Lower Falls in the summer morning. When the sun is out mid-morning a rainbow appears. They say there is always a rainbow somewhere in Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2014
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This image is included in a gallery "Memories of Travels" curated by RD Glamour Photography.
As the Yellowstone river flows north from Yellowstone Lake, it leaves the Hayden Valley and plunges first over Upper Yellowstone Falls and then a quarter mile (400 m) downstream over Lower Yellowstone Falls, at which point it then enters the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Cascading from the 590,000 year old Canyon Rhyolite lava flow, Lower Yellowstone Falls is the largest volume waterfall in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. These falls (44°43′05′′N 110°29′46′′W) are 308 feet ( 94 m) high, or nearly twice as high as Niagara Falls. The volume of water flowing over Lower Yellowstone Falls can vary from 680 cu ft/s (19 m3/s) in the autumn, to 8,400 cu ft/s (240 m3 /s) at peak runoff in late springtime. The flow rate of Lower Yellowstone Falls is much less than that of Niagara Falls, as the Yellowstone River is only 70 feet (21 m) at the point at which it goes over the lower falls, Where the Niagara River is 2,600 feet (790 m) in width as it approaches the crest line of Horseshoe Falls. (Wikipedia)
This was viewed from Artist Point. The perspective was similar to those of Thomas Moron's (1871) and Ansel Adams' (1941) famous paintings and photographs on the same subject. Early morning light accentuated the yellow-orange colours of the steep canyon slopes on either side.
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Milky Way over Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone National Park. After setting up for this shot, I waited another hour for the Milky Way to rotate closer to the falls and get a better alignment. During the time exposure, I light painted the falls and the canyon with a large studio strobe. Planning, calculations, and building lighting equipment for this shot took almost two months.
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Yellowstone Falls consist of two major waterfalls on the Yellowstone River, within Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. As the Yellowstone river flows north from Yellowstone Lake, it leaves the Hayden Valley and plunges first over Upper Yellowstone Falls and then a quarter mile (400 m) downstream over Lower Yellowstone Falls, at which point it then enters the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which is up to 1,000 feet (304 m) deep. Lower Yellowstone Falls: Cascading from the 590,000 year old Canyon Rhyolite lava flow, Lower Yellowstone Falls is the largest volume waterfall in the Rocky Mountains of the United States.[citation needed] These falls (44°43′05″N 110°29′46″W) are 308 feet (94 m) high, or nearly twice as high as Niagara Falls. The volume of water flowing over Lower Yellowstone Falls can vary from 680 cu ft/s (19 m3/s) in the autumn, to 8,400 cu ft/s (240 m3/s) at peak runoff in late springtime.[citation needed] The flow rate of Lower Yellowstone Falls is much less than that of Niagara Falls, as the Yellowstone River is only 70 feet (21 m) at the point at which it goes over the lower falls, whereas the Niagara River is 2,600 feet (790 m) in width as it approaches the crest line of Horseshoe Falls. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Falls]
Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of its most popular features. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park]