RHH's photos with the keyword: tower falls

I am back to posting photos from Yellowstone National Park by way of giving a tour of the park. The first inset is of Tower Falls where we left off a while back and so it is this photo, taken as winter closed in on the park. Indeed, the road south of Tower Falls, through Dunraven Pass, was already closed for the season. Tower Falls is on the east side of the upper loop of the main road through Yellowstone (the main road forms a rough figure eight). Our tour thus far followed that upper loop from the north entrance down around the west side of the loop and now up the east side. As to the falls, the trail to the base of the falls is now closed due to erosion and has been closed for many years, but when open the view from the bottom of the falls was magnificent.

This is Tower Falls in Yellowstone National Park. Taken in October, this photo not only shows snow and ice around the falls, but also the rock columns near the falls. In October winter is setting in in Yellowstone and the road south of Tower Falls was already closed for the season.

These are the cliffs above Tower Falls in Yellowstone National Park. The unusual rock columns are also found near the falls themselves.

Continuing our tour of Yellowstone National Park, after leaving Norris Geyser Basin on the west side of the park where the two loops of the main road meet, we continue east from Norris Junction to Canyon Junction, a twelve mile drive. Canyon Junction is the location of Canyon Village, a campground, and the roads that follow the north and south rims of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. At Canyon Junction the road turns south to Hayden Valley or north to Dunraven Pass. We are going to bypass the canyon for now and head north up the pass, one of the least visited areas of the park, with few geothermal features but wonderful scenery. We are driving the east side of the upper loop of Yellowstone's figure "8" main road. Dunraven Pass is a wonderful place to see some of Yellowstone's wildflowers in the spring and early summer and I've posed several photos of them in the insets including a photo of some of Yellowstone's native orchids. The main feature of this northeast side of the park is Tower Falls, a 132 foot (40 meter) falls. The last few times we were there the trail to the base of the falls was closed but they can still be seen from further up. The falls are usually busy but the area north and west of the falls less so. Just north of the falls is the northeast entrance to the park (one of five entrances) and at that junction the main road continues to the west and back to Mammoth Hot Springs through an area with few thermal features.