Glacier National Park
Category: Montana 2018
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The Crown of the Continent
Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute.Here is a land of striking scenery.
George Bird Grinnell, The Century Magazine. 1901
Avalanche Lake -
Geysers, hot springs, paint pots and steam
Thermal Features of Yellowstone National Park
Blood Geyser 
Paintpots 
Emerald Spring 
Steamboat Geyser – World’s Tallest Active Geyser 
Cistern Spring 
Fearless Geyser 
Minute Geyser -
Madison Junction
Yellowstone National Park
Legend has it that here, where the Firehole and Gibbon Rivers join to form the Madison River, members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition gathered on the last night of their journey through the Yellowstone country on September 19, 1870. Discussing the wonders they had seen, they developed an idea that this land should be set aside for the benefit of all people. Less than two years later President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law creating Yellowstone National Park. The first national park.
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Yellowstone
Yellowstone is the first place we realized that the land is not just good for what we can physically take from it, but what we can spiritually take from it.
