Yellowstone National Park, WY
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A short hike up a steep hill off the trail leads to this stunning view of the Grand Prismatic Spring.
A piece of driftwood ornaments the sandy shore of Yellowstone Lake behind the Lake Village visitor's center.
The edge of Yellowstone's famous Grand Prismatic Spring steams and overflows with colorful bacteria and minerals.
A scorched tree trunk stands alone in Midway Geyser Basin along the Fairy Falls hiking trail in Yellowstone National Park.
A male elk grazes on the tall grass in the early evening along the road in the Madison area of Yellowstone National Park.
The canyons and cliff faces of Yellowstone National Park evoke a painterly aesthetic.
The silhouette of a dead tree stands in a dense steam fog produced by the Artist's Paint Pots in Yellowstone National Park.
Minerals and bacteria are responsible for most of Yellowstone's incredible colors. Here, sulfur turns the ground yellow alongside chalky white gravel.
Beautiful blue water, red sand, and white gravel are commonplace in Yellowstone's geyser basins.
Yellowstone's Firehole River splashes over rocks along Firehole Canyon Drive.
A fiery sunrise sets the dew-covered landscape alight in Madison on the west end of Yellowstone National Park.
The pink morning light gently kisses the clouds as thick fog rolls over the dew-covered landscape of Madison on the west side of Yellowstone National Park.
The Upper Geyser Basin's most famous and visited feature, Old Faithful spews between three and nine thousand US gallons of water into the air approximately every 90 minutes. It is a sight and sound experience that everyone should at least once have.
From behind thick clouds the sun casts its warming glow upon a grove of burned trees in Yellowstone National Park.
Mammoth Hot Springs, Upper Terraces
Snow melts from the terraces of calcium carbonate at Mammoth Hot Springs where thousands of years of hot spring water create these unique formations.
Terraces of calcium carbonate deposited by runoff from the Mammoth Hot Springs fill with crystal clear water and reflect the peaks of the Gallatin mountain range in the distance.
Unusual erosion and patterned sedimentary deposits form steps filled with glassy clear water in Yellowstone National Park.
The sedimentary deposits, heat, and chemical contents of the springs in Yellowstone sometimes cause objects laying in the pools to become coated in a hard shell.
White and red soil mingle in pools surrounding the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.
Iron in the rock and sediment oxidizes (rusts) and provides brilliant red and orange hues to some of the Yellowstone springs.
A pool of blue spring water is visible in one of the many springs and outlets in Yellowstone National Park. The surrounding rock contains iron in varying stages of oxidation, giving it red and orange hues.
Muddy water is tossed into the air by steam bubbling up from underground. The water is heated by Yellowstone's caldera and boils beneath the surface.
A bison falls behind its small group in the Fountain Paint Pot area of Yellowstone National Park.
