NATIONAL PARKS NEWS

Yellowstone Lake: Where Fire Meets Ice

Compared to Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake seems fairly dull, but appearances can be deceiving. The bottom of Yellowstone Lake is hydrothermally active, and scientists are studying hydrothermal vents, spires, craters, domes, rhyolitic lava flows and other evidence of glacial, tectonic and sedimentation processes that created the Yellowstone Lake of today.
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Did you know Yellowstone has 3 Enormous Calderas?

At least 1,299 episodes of unrest have occurred at 138 calderas greater than 5 km in diameter during historical time.
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Yellowstone Lake by the numbers

Streams that flow into Yellowstone Lake. The Yellowstone River is the largest inflow and only outflow to the lake
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The Yellowstone Caldera Rises, Falls and Rises Again

Deep beneath Yellowstone, titanic forces power some 10,000 geothermal features. Those forces of heat and pressure have caused the Earth's surface to rise and fall - much like the not-so-rhythmic breathing of a gigantic, slumbering beast.
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Three Yellowstone calderas

The Yellowstone region has produced three exceedingly large volcanic eruptions in the past 2.1 million years
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Researchers take calculated risks around hazards

National Park Service reports confirm that unwary summertime tourists are most likely to get burned in Yellowstone National Park's thermal areas when they stray off marked trails and boardwalks.
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Streamside in Yellowstone

Mid-summer is the best time to sit alongside a river and listen to it talk to you. Peace and solitude like that are hard to find in crowded suburbia, but up here in Yellowstone, one can find both alongside any number of great trout fishing waters, entering from any of the Park's four entrances
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Geyser gazers perform vital service for science

There is no cure, but treatment can consist of regular visits to geysers, or becoming a member of the Geyser Observation and Study Association (GOSA), a citizen-science group of 300 members.
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