America & Canada
Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs
Mammoth Hot Springs is a truly wonderful area to visit.
Mammoth Hot Springs is a large complex of hot springs on a hill in Yellowstone National Park adjacent to Fort Yellowstone and the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District. It was created over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and deposited calcium carbonate (over two tons flow into Mammoth each day in a solution). Although these springs lie outside the caldera boundary, their energy has been attributed to the same magmatic system that fuels other Yellowstone geothermal areas
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Photographer: brian swales
