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Posted by Granite Head (63.166.31.240) on 15:04:50 07/09/21
In Reply to: On the way to Artist's Point posted by Granite Head
Depending on where the sunlight is coming from on a given day, I often turn around and look "down canyon" instead of toward the falls. This was one of those days. The walls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River are brightly colored from iron and other mineral deposits laid bare by millennia of erosion, as well as out put from the geothermal features that dot the the walls. Below the canyon walls, the Yellowstone River makes its way northward, eventually joining the Missouri, then the Mississippi river, to at last empty into the Gulf of Mexico.
Viewed to the northwest from Artists Point lookout on the canyon's south rim.
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