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Top 10 sights in West Yellowstone

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   Gibbon Falls

   A waterfall twenty-five metres high on the Gibbon river in Yellowstone National Park. The cliff it falls over lies on the rim of the caldera formed by the eruption of 640,000 years ago.

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   Mount Holmes

   A mountain of 3,150 metres in the northwest of Yellowstone National Park, named after William Holmes, the nineteenth-century artist and geologist who drew the park.

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   Mystic Falls

   A waterfall twenty-one metres high on the Little Firehole river in Yellowstone National Park. It is reached on foot through the forest from near Old Faithful.

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   Echo Peak

   A mountain in the Teton area south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named for the echo off the lake below it, and the climbing route starts from the water.

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   Firehole Falls

   A waterfall twelve metres high in the canyon of the Firehole river in Yellowstone National Park. Hot springs warm the river below the falls, which makes this one of the few stretches in the park where swimming is allowed in summer.

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   Mount Haynes

   A mountain of 2,617 metres beside the Madison river in Yellowstone National Park, named after Frank Jay Haynes, who made the park known through his early photographs.

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   National Park Mountain

   A mountain at Madison Junction in Yellowstone National Park. Its name comes from the story that the survey party of 1870 discussed the idea of a national park around a campfire at its foot.

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   Purple Mountain

   A mountain of 2,713 metres north of the Madison river in Yellowstone National Park. The fires of 1988 burned its forest, and it is a place where the regrowth since has been watched.

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   Hebgen Lake

   A reservoir made on the Madison river west of Yellowstone in 1914. It is known for the earthquake of 1959, in which a landslide dammed the river and formed a new lake below it.

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    Dome Mountain

    A mountain of 2,822 metres in the north of Yellowstone National Park. Its rounded summit gives it its name, and it looks down into the canyon of the Yellowstone river.

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   Henrys Lake

   A shallow alpine lake in eastern Idaho, roughly four miles by two and lying at 6,472 feet, just south of the continental divide. It feeds the Henrys Fork of the Snake River and sits 16 miles west of Yellowstone; a dam at the outlet raised its level in the 1920s.

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   Mount Jackson

   A mountain of 3,088 metres in Yellowstone National Park, named after William Henry Jackson, the photographer who accompanied the survey of 1871.

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   Three Rivers Peak

   A mountain of 3,067 metres in the northwest of Yellowstone National Park. Three watercourses divide from it, which gives it its name.

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   Trilobite Point

   A mountain of 3,015 metres in the northwest of Yellowstone National Park. Cambrian trilobite fossils were found in the beds near its summit, which gives it its name.

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