Yellowstone Facts #2!

In spring when snow is melting and rain is falling, 64,000 gallons of water go over the Upper and Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River every second.

Yellowstone Lake sits an elevation of 7,733 feet above sea level, making it the largest high-elevation lake in North America.

The average depth of Yellowstone Lake is about 140 feet, but the maximum depth is 390 feet.

There are 340 waterfalls in Yellowstone, including 290 that were recently discovered.

Of the approximately 200 lakes in Yellowstone, only 45 have fish in them.  The others are too small, too shallow, too hot, too alkali, too acidic, or have access blocked by waterfalls.

A sagebrush plant can live for 200 years.

The average year-round temperature of Yellowstone National Park is 35F.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is 20 miles long, 1,500 to 4,000 feet wide, and up to 1,500 feet deep.  If you hike all the way to the bottom of the canyon and all the way back up again, that would be equal to taking the stairs to the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago and back down again.

There are about 2,000 campsites in the park accessible to vehicles, and there are 300 backcountry campsites.

If you drive every road in Yellowstone National Park, you will see only two (2) percent of the park.

The only section of road that remains open year-round in Yellowstone is from the north entrance at Mammoth to the northeast entrance at Cooke City, where it dead-ends in the winter.