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Kepler Cascades

Located at around two miles south of the Old Faithful, Kepler Cascades, is.  beautiful waterfall, where the Firestone River cascades 150 feet downward through a deep canyon ravine in a series of drops, the greatest being 50 feet. From the parking lot next to the road, a short accessible boardwalk leads to an overlook platform positioned literally on the cliff’s edge. This provides an excellent view of the cascades as well as the continued downward flow of the river through the canyon. The cascades were named by park superintendent Philetus Norris in 1881 for the 12-year-old son of Wyoming’s territorial governor John Wesley Hoyt, when he and his son Kepler were visiting the park that year.

Crested Pool 

It is a hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. The spring is 42 feet (12.8 m) deep. It is named for the “crest” which surrounds the pool. Although it is considered a spring, Crested Pool sometimes erupts like a geyser.

Grand Prismatic

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the US and the third-largest globally. Famous for its rainbow-colored rings—caused by heat-loving thermophile bacteria—it measures over 370 feet in diameter and 121 feet deep.

The vibrant red, orange, and yellow edges are created by microbial mats. The deep blue center is caused by the way water scatters blue light in extremely hot, sterile water.

Hot springs are the most common hydrothermal features in Yellowstone. Their plumbing has no constrictions.

Superheated water cools as it reaches the surface, sinks, and is replaced by hotter water from below.

This circulation prevents water from reaching the temperature needed to set off an eruption.

Next week, we will go ahead with the visual tour of the Upper Geyser Basin by looking at all the famous five currently active geysers.