Lone Star Geyser Basin can be reached by various routes but the shortest and most enjoyable is reached by a 5-mile roundtrip hike that starts beside the Grand Loop Road 2 miles south of Old Faithful Village, next to the Firehole River. This trail is one of the few open to bicycles. Lone Star Geyser erupts about every three hours. The eruptions are 45 feet high and la...

Lower Geyser Basin has a much less concentrated set of geothermal features then other areas in the park. The main feature is the Fountain Paint Pots, which are a hot spring that contains boiling mud instead of water. The mud is produced by a higher acidity in the water which enables the spring to dissolve surrounding minerals to create an opaque, usually grey, mud. ...

Midway Geyser Basin is small in size compared to its companions along the Firehole River, holds large wonders for the visitor. Excelsior Geyser reveals a gaping crater 200 x 300 feet with a constant discharge of more than 4,000 gallons of water per minute into the Firehole River. Also in this surprising basin is Yellowstone's largest hot springs, Grand Prismatic Spr...

Monarch Geyser is located in Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park.

The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geyser basin in the park and is located near the northwest edge of Yellowstone Caldera near Norris Junction and on the intersection of three major faults. The Norris-Mammoth Corridor is a fault that runs from Norris north through Mammoth to the Gardiner, Montana, area. The Hebgen Lake fault runs from northwest of West Yellowstone...

Close to the Firehole River, Oblong Geyser is a deep blue pool with a raised sinter rim and geyserite. Sawtooth-textured geyserite surrounds part of the main pool, but also forms small, shallow pools in the overflow of the main pool. Oblong Geyser is unique in that while its eruptions aren't as dramatic as other features, the volume of water flowing into the Firehole ...

Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name. It is also called the most predictable geographical feature on Earth erupting almost every 91 minutes. The geyser, as well as the nearby...

Pink Cone Geyser is a cone-type geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. It is part of the Pink Cone Group. Other geysers in this groups include Bead Geyser, Box Spring, Dilemma Geyser, Labial Geyser, Narcissus Geyser, and Pink Geyser. Eruptions last 1.5 to 2 hours with a maximum height of 30 feet (9.1 m) high. The interval b...

Pohutu Geyser is a geyser in the Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley, Rotorua. Pohutu means "big splash" or "explosion." The main geyser of the area, it spurts up to twenty times per day and can reach heights of up to 100 feet (30 meters). It is possible to access Pohutu Geyser via the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute.

Dramatic behavioral changes have characterized Porkchop Geyser during the last decade. Once a small hot spring that occasionally erupted, Porkchop Geyser became a continuous spouter in the spring of 1985. The force of the spray caused a roar that could be heard at the museum over 660 yards (603m) away. On September 5, 1989, Porkchop Geyser exploded. Rocks surrounding ...

Riverside Geyser is a geyser in Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The geyser is located on the Firehole River within the Upper Geyser Basin. The geyser shoots steam and water to heights of 75 feet (23 m) in an arch over the river, sometimes causing brilliant rainbows. The eruptions occur every 51⁄2 to 7 hours. As is Daisy, Riverside is one ...

Sajama National Park in Bolivia offers stunning geysers and hot springs. These geysers, along with thermal pools, are a result of the park's underlying volcanic activity.

Sawmill Geyser, named for the whirring sound it makes during its eruption, is a geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. The geyser was named by Antoine Schoenborn of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. Sawmill is the largest geyser in the Sawmill Complex, a region of geothermal features located in Upper Geyser Basin approximately 10 feet of...

Shoshone Geyser Basin has a bunch of little steaming hot spirngs and geysers to check out. Located on the western shore of Shoshone Lake, you either have to paddle or hike down the Howard Eaton Trail from Old Faithful or Lone Star Trail to see the Shoshone Geyser Basin. You can do a long 17-19 mile day hike that crosses the Continental Divide at Grant's Pass to Shosh...

Sol de Mañana, meaning Morning Sun in Spanish, is a geothermal field in Sur Lípez Province in the Potosi Department of south-western Bolivia. It extends over 10 km², between 4800m and 5000m height. This area is characterized by intense volcanic activity and the sulphur springs field, not geysers as sometimes it can be read, is full of mud lakes and ...