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Yellowstone
Beautiful Lower Falls in Autumn
You can get up-close and personal with Upper and Lower Falls in Yellowstone. If you ever wanted to see what it looks like right before you go over the falls, then you will love the look-out points above both falls.
Yellowstone Falls consist of two major waterfalls on the Yellowstone River, within Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. As the Yellowstone river flows north from Yellowstone Lake, it leaves the Hayden Valley and plunges first over Upper Yellowstone Falls and then a quarter mile downstream over Lower Yellowstone Falls, at which point it then enters the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which is up to 1,000 feet deep.
The upper falls (44°42′46″N 110°29′59″W) are 109 feet high. The brink of the upper falls marks the junction between a hard rhyolite lava flow and weaker glassy lava that has been more heavily eroded.
Cascading from the 590,000 year old Canyon Rhyolite lava flow, Lower Yellowstone Falls is the largest volume waterfall in the Rocky Mountains of the United States.[citation needed] These falls (44°43′05″N 110°29′46″W) are 308 feet high, or nearly twice as high as Niagara Falls. The volume of water flowing over Lower Yellowstone Falls can vary from 680 cu ft/s (19 m3/s) in the autumn, to 8,400 cu ft/s (240 m3/s) at peak runoff in late springtime.[citation needed] The flow rate of Lower Yellowstone Falls is much less than that of Niagara Falls, as the Yellowstone River is only 70 feet at the point at which it goes over the lower falls, whereas the Niagara River is 2,600 feet in width as it approaches the crest line of Horseshoe Falls.
See Lower Falls in winter: https://www.peternoahthomas.com/2018/01/frozen-lookout-point.html
This video shows the beauty and magic that Upper and Lower Falls provide people lucky enough to experience them in person. =]:)
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