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Yellowstone National Park: Three trailside museums and a staff residence built 1929–1931, whose National Park Service rustic architecture was a major influence on buildings in national, state, and county parks around the U.S. during the New Deal. [13] 10: North Entrance Road Historic District: North Entrance Road Historic District
The Roosevelt Lodge Historic District comprises the area around the Roosevelt Lodge in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, near Tower Junction. The district includes 143 buildings ranging in size from cabins to the Lodge, built beginning in 1919.
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. Yellowstone National Park contains at least 45 named waterfalls and cascades, and hundreds more unnamed, even undiscovered waterfalls over 15 feet (4.6 m) high. The highest plunge type waterfall in the park is the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River at 308 feet (94 m).
John Colter (or Coulter), a former member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, spent the winter of 1806-1807 trapping along the middle Yellowstone River.With the information he learned there, he was hired by the Missouri Fur Trading Company to invite Indian tribes to the trading post the company built at the mouth of the Big Horn River in October 1807. [5]
Mountain Ranges of Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though the park also extends into Montana and Idaho and its Mountains and Mountain Ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 70 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Yellowstone in four mountain ranges. Two of ...
Philetus Norris Panoramic painting of Yellowstone National Park by Heinrich C. Berann, commissioned by the National Park Service. Exploration Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition – 1869 exploration of Yellowstone river and lake; Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition – 1870 exploration of Yellowstone river, lake and Firehole river basin