Visit Artist Point (Yellowstone), Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

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Artist Point is one of the marquee overlooks on the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, with an exceptional perspective of canyon’s most famous feature, the 308-foot Lower Falls. The viewpoint juts out from the south wall of the canyon and is just a short 0.1-mile walk from South Rim Drive. Beyond the paved trail, you can continue hiking along the south rim of the canyon to places like Point Sublime. Get started from a large parking area at the east end of South Rim Drive and hike down the wide paved trail continuing beyond the road’s end. Through pines along the rim of the canyon, you can sneak a peak of Lower Falls. The finest perspective comes at Artist Point, so step out onto the promontory and take in the panoramic view. The point was originally named in 1883 by Frank Jay Haynes who improperly believed that the point was the place at which painter Thomas Moran sketched his 1872 depictions of the falls. Later work determined that the sketches were made from the north rim, but the name Artist Pointstuck.

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