RHH's photos with the keyword: mudpots

South of Hayden Valley and on the east side of the lower loop of Yellowstone's main road is the mud volcano area, an area of boiling mud pots, fumaroles, and hot springs. It is one of the worst-smelling areas as well. The main area is near the road and there is a short loop around some of the main features. There is also a short trail up the hill and back to Sizzling Basin, Sour Lake andd Black Dragon Cauldron. These photos are all of features in the lower area, this of Mud Volcano itself.

The Mud Volcano area of Yellowstone is an area of boiling springs, fumaroles and mud pots. This hot spring is along the boardwalk in the lower part of the area.

This hot spring, Dragon's Mouth Spring, is one of the features of the Mud Volcano area of Yellowstone National Park.

Sizzling Basin, an area of fumaroles and hot springs, lies just above the Mud Volcano area of Yellowstone National Park. This is the run-off water from the basin.

This water is warm enough for plants to grow and is some distance from the hot springs and pools of Sizzling Basin. Sizzling Basin is in the Mud Volcano area of Yellowstone National Park and this is some of the run-off water from the basin.

The Artist's Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park is on the northwest side of the park and features a short trail with several geysers, a fumarole, some hot springs and a number of mud pots like this one. Mud pots are pools of bubbling mud, really hot springs that do not have sufficient water. The microorganisms in the water dissolve the surrounding rock into clay and mud. The bursting bubbles of mud at this mud pot had spattered mud all over the boardwalk nearby.