RHH's photos with the keyword: dunraven pass

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.

Dunraven Pass is on the northeast side of Yellowstone National Park and is a beautiful drive especially in the spring when the wildflowers are blooming.

Also known as the Great Purple Monkeyflower, this is one of the wildflowers we photographed in Dunraven Pass north of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and on the northeast side of the park.

These orchids, White Bog Orchids, were photographed in a field of wildflowers in Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone National Park. The wildflowers in the background include lupines, buckwheat, geraniums, daisies and other wildflowers.

Taken while traveling north through Yellowstone's Dunraven Pass on the way to Tower Falls - the flowers are Arnica and Lupine. We had stopped earlier and photographed many of them including several native orchids.

Better known as the Tall Fringed Bluebell, Mertensia ciliata, this lovely wildflower is also sometimes called Languid Lady. This example was photographed on northeast side of Yellowstone National Park in Dunraven Pass.