Animal jams as we entered the park – elk grazed along
the Madison River and had a large audience jockeying for photos.
Firehole Canyon rewarded us with many surprises. The
Firehole Falls was a lovely stop, the water, trees and sounds of the
falls. Up the river a bit, was a gaggle
of swimmers who were enjoying the water. They
must have found a warm spot!
There is a great museum near Old Faithful that explains the
geothermal features of the park as they relate to volcanism. The central section of the park is in a
collapsed volcanic caldera. Heat from
the magma chamber is what fuels the geysers and other features.
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