RHH's photos with the keyword: fountain paint pots

This is hot runoff water from Celestine Pool in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. The area is called the Fountain Paint Pots for its colored pots of boiling mud.

These trees, killed by geothermal activity, are near the parking area for Fountain Paint Pots in Yellowstone National Park. Some of the Lower Geyser Basin is visible in the background.

These trees have been killed by geothermal activity. They are near the parking area at Fountain Paint Pots in Yellowstone National Park.

At the end of and across the road from Firehole Lake Drive is Fountain Paint Pots, the last of the geyser basins we will be visiting. From the parking area the boardwalk leads through an area of runoff and dead trees, killed by geothermal activity..

This is one of the hot springs in the Artist's Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park. The pools of boiling mud are the main feature of this area, but there are small geysers and springs as well.

This Fringed Gentian was photographed in the Fountain Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is famous for its thermal features but has an abundance of beautiful wildflowers as well.

Yellowstone National Park has everything, even orchids. This example of Hooded Ladies' Tresses was photographed around the hot springs of the Fountain Paint Pots area of Yellowstone. It like wet areas and seems to like the warm waters of the hot springs especially. Fountain Paint Pots is an area of thermal activity on the west side of the lower loop of Yellowstone's main road between Gibbon Falls and Norris Junction. We are continuing our tour of Yellowstone and have arrived at the Paint Pots, but some flowers from that area before the Paint Pots themselves. The flowers were photographed at different times of the year and on different trips to Yellowstone.

I believe this is Elk Thistle, a plant native to Yellowstone National Park and photographed in the Fountain Paint Pots area of the park. Its root is edible and an explorer who was separated from his party and lost for over a month in the park in 1870 subsisted on the raw root of the plant the whole time since itt was the only edible plant he knew.

This Indian Paintbrush was photographed in the Fountain Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park. I believe it is the Wyoming Paintbrush, though these Paintbrushes are very difficult to distinguish.

This photo explains why this area of Yellowstone National Park is known as Fountain Paint Pots. The photo was taken along the boardwalks in the area.

This photo was taken from the boardwalks at Fountain Paints Pots in Yellowstone National Park and in an area where the hot water has killed the trees.

When we visited Yellowstone National Park this past summer the Gentians were finished but we have seen them on many other trips. These were photographed in the area of the Fountain Paint Pots growing in a boggy area with sedges. The Western or Small Fringed Gentian, Genianopsis detonsa is the official flower of the park and one of the most beautiful wildflowers in the park.