Roadside oddities44.5364° N, 110.7999° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A large fountain-type geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin that erupts from a terraced sinter platform.
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Roadside oddities in Wyoming
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Suggest a stopGiant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
- Roadside oddities44.4718° N, 110.8418° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
Its bizarre, knobby cone encloses old tree stumps and resembles a stone grotto assembled by hand.
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- Roadside oddities44.6660° N, 109.1188° W
Park County, WY
An isolated mountain formed from a gigantic prehistoric landslide block, a classic geologic puzzle rising above the Bighorn Basin.
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- Roadside oddities43.0380° N, 107.0931° W
Natrona County, WY
A maze of eroded badlands, ravines and spires beside US 20/26 whose name matches its harsh, otherworldly appearance.
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- Roadside oddities41.4500° N, 106.8025° W
Saratoga, WY
A free municipal soaking pool fed by natural hot springs, traditionally open around the clock rather than operating like a typical spa.
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- Roadside oddities41.9611° N, 109.0806° W
Sweetwater County, WY
A huge field of active sand dunes includes one of the largest moving-dune systems in North America and a designated open-play area.
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- Roadside oddities44.9728° N, 110.7044° W
Mammoth Hot Springs, WY
A 37-foot dormant hot-spring cone whose shape reminded early visitors of the peaked caps associated with the French Revolution.
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- Roadside oddities41.2369° N, 105.4363° W
Albany County, WY
A gigantic bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln sits atop a 30-foot granite pedestal at the highest point of Interstate 80.
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- Roadside oddities43.5020° N, 110.8432° W
Wilson, WY
Thomas Dambo's enormous recycled-wood troll crouches in R Park, turning a public nature area into a literal giant-creature hunt.
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- Roadside oddities44.9727° N, 110.7039° W
Mammoth Hot Springs, WY
A constantly changing landscape of travertine steps, steaming pools and mineral formations unlike Yellowstone's silica geyser basins.
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- Roadside oddities44.4750° N, 110.8435° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A famous flower-shaped hot spring whose colors record both natural microbial growth and past human damage to the vent.
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- Roadside oddities44.6243° N, 110.4345° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A violently bubbling acidic mud feature in one of Yellowstone's most sulfurous-smelling thermal areas.
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- Roadside oddities44.5263° N, 110.4558° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A 51-foot rhyolite rock bridge reached by trail near Bridge Bay, carved by erosion rather than built by people.
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- Roadside oddities44.4603° N, 110.8283° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
Yellowstone's best-known cone geyser, famous for frequent, comparatively predictable eruptions from the Upper Geyser Basin.
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- Roadside oddities44.9725° N, 110.7053° W
Mammoth Hot Springs, WY
Flowing thermal water paints steep travertine terraces with shifting white, orange and brown mineral and microbial bands.
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- Roadside oddities44.0413° N, 110.1749° W
Teton Wilderness, WY
At Two Ocean Pass, a creek divides so that water can ultimately reach both the Atlantic and Pacific drainage systems.
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- Roadside oddities42.7467° N, 110.8494° W
Afton, WY
One of the world's largest rhythmic springs periodically stops and restarts its flow, likely because of a natural siphon system underground.
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- Roadside oddities44.9163° N, 110.4394° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A standing fossilized redwood relative left from ancient volcanic burial; one of the park's most accessible petrified-tree remnants.
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- Roadside oddities44.7283° N, 110.7040° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A stark, steaming expanse of milky mineral ground and intensely colored hot springs in Norris Geyser Basin.
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- Roadside oddities43.6534° N, 108.1953° W
Thermopolis, WY
Hot mineral water builds and stains broad travertine terraces in Hot Springs State Park, creating constantly changing bands of color.
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- Roadside oddities44.4624° N, 107.8156° W
Shell, WY
Hundreds of Middle Jurassic dinosaur footprints cross an ancient tidal-flat surface at Wyoming's largest documented tracksite.
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- Roadside oddities44.4735° N, 110.8408° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A geyser on the Firehole River that throws its eruption in a graceful arc over the water.
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- Roadside oddities44.7772° N, 110.7280° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A mountainside studded with fumaroles; early visitors described the combined steam vents as loud enough to roar.
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- Roadside oddities44.8912° N, 110.7300° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
Columnar basalt forms a wall of tightly packed stone pillars named for the Tukadeka, or Sheepeater, people of the region.
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