How Do You Enjoy The Lower Geyser Basin In Yellowstone National Park?
Although people tend to focus on Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park has other thermal areas nearly everywhere. A driver headed north from Old Faithful will come next to Midway Geyser Basin, then finally the Lower Geyser Basin, the last in a series of thermal areas that extend down the Firehole River valley. Here, there are two main activities, both easy to do: you can take Firehole Lake Drive, a three-mile tour of one end of the basin, or you can park and explore the Fountain Paint Pot area by the boardwalk. Explore this attraction with these helpful tips. Go to the Lower Geyser Basin. As you approach it from Old Faithful, heading north, you will know you are close when you pass the Whiskey Flat picnic area. Watch for a road on the right; this is the entrance to Firehole Lake Drive. Follow it to Great Fountain Geyser, one of the geysers in Yellowstone for which the rangers can provide a prediction. If you are driving south on the main road, from Madison Junction, you will k
