RHH's photos with the keyword: rim

Moonscape Overlook is part of Skyline Rim, a canyon rim overlooking the moonscape-like valley some 500 feet below. Along the overlook is this point to which one can walk if daring enough. We were not but the girl in the photo was and stood on the point while her boyfriend took photos of her and the sunrise..

Traveling around the lower loop of Yellowstone National Park's main road, we've come to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and to the great falls of the Yellowstone River, Upper and Lower. Coming from Norris Junction we traveled east around the top of the loop for about 12 miles to Canyon Junction where the west sides of the upper and lower loops meet. Canyon Junction is one of the main tourist areas of Yellowstone and has a store, a campground and a visitors' center. From there one can explore the rims of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and see the Upper and Lower Falls from different viewpoints. We are following the north rim drive in these photos and just a little way to a side road and trail that bring us to the brink of the Upper Falls. The falls themselves are not visible here, only the river above the falls and the mist and spray from the falls. This photo and the other insets were all taken from the viewpoint at the end of the short trail. My next photos will be from a bit further east and will show the falls.

This photo is of the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone as they thunder down into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The photo was taken from a side road and trail that lead to the brink of the Upper Falls and a viewpoint there.

This is another photo of the brink of Upper Yellowstone Falls where the water of the Yellowstone River drops 109 feet (33 meters) and flows another quarter mile before dropping again over the Lower Falls.

This is the view from the brink of Upper Yellowstone Falls. Along the north rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and just a short distance from Canyon Village, there is a side road and short trail to this viewpoint where the water of the Upper Falls crashes into the canyon below.

This is the view upriver from the viewpoint at the brink of Upper Yellowstone Falls, reached by a side road and short trail from Canyon Village. The bridge is on the road to the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.