Roadside oddities44.4182° N, 110.5725° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A remarkably deep blue hot spring in West Thumb Geyser Basin whose apparent depth gives it an almost bottomless look.
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Suggest a stopGiant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
- Roadside oddities41.2515° N, 108.2856° W
Sweetwater County, WY
Remote badlands contain bizarre erosional forms, abundant Eocene fossils and dense archaeological resources spanning roughly 12,000 years.
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- Roadside oddities44.6401° N, 104.1826° W
Aladdin, WY
An operating 1896 mercantile retains original woodwork, cabinetry, bins and an antique-filled upper floor in one of Wyoming's tiniest communities.
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- Roadside oddities41.1311° N, 105.3981° W
Albany County, WY
A 60-foot granite pyramid stands alone near the former highest point of the original transcontinental railroad route.
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- Roadside oddities44.6927° N, 110.7380° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A hillside thermal area of pastel mud pots, steaming vents and hot springs reached by a short trail and boardwalk.
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- Roadside oddities42.7348° N, 105.6111° W
Converse County, WY
LaPrele Creek passes beneath a naturally eroded rock arch in a small county park hidden below the surrounding plains.
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- Roadside oddities44.4626° N, 110.8299° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A narrow cone geyser near Old Faithful known for forceful eruptions and a small indicator vent that may precede activity.
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- Roadside oddities44.6788° N, 110.7463° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
One of Yellowstone's hottest springs sits almost directly beside the Grand Loop Road, steaming vividly against the forest.
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- Roadside oddities44.6202° N, 110.4352° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A dark, churning mud pot that appeared suddenly in the 1940s and remains one of the Mud Volcano area's stranger features.
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- Roadside oddities44.4182° N, 110.5718° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
Despite its name, this West Thumb pool is now intensely blue after hotter water altered the microbes that once darkened it.
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- Roadside oddities41.9614° N, 109.1996° W
Sweetwater County, WY
A 400-foot volcanic neck rises abruptly from the Killpecker plain; BLM prohibits climbing and recommends high-clearance access.
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- Roadside oddities44.4634° N, 110.8367° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
One of Yellowstone's largest geyser cones, built by thousands of years of mineral deposits into a castle-like formation.
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- Roadside oddities41.7569° N, 104.8216° W
Chugwater, WY
A surviving small-town soda fountain preserves an unusually intact early drugstore-and-fountain atmosphere along the old highway.
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- Roadside oddities44.4702° N, 110.8442° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A frequently erupting geyser whose angled jets sweep across the basin rather than firing straight upward.
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- Roadside oddities44.5905° N, 104.7152° W
Devils Tower, WY
A sheer igneous monolith sacred to multiple Indigenous nations and later made America's first national monument.
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- Roadside oddities44.6252° N, 110.4349° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
Steam and surging water pulse from a cave-like opening, creating the roaring effect that inspired the spring's name.
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- Roadside oddities44.7221° N, 110.7022° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
An acidic geyser in Norris Basin with a name referring to the spiny appearance of mineral deposits around its vent.
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- Roadside oddities44.5263° N, 110.8368° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
An enormous blue thermal crater beside Grand Prismatic that once produced some of the largest known geyser eruptions.
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- Roadside oddities44.4173° N, 110.5703° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A hot-spring cone at Yellowstone Lake once associated with the old story of anglers cooking freshly caught fish without leaving the line.
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- Roadside oddities41.8652° N, 106.0732° W
Medicine Bow, WY
A 1930s roadside cabin was built from thousands of dinosaur bones collected around Como Bluff; the historic attraction itself is closed.
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- Roadside oddities41.8563° N, 110.7625° W
Kemmerer, WY
Exceptionally detailed fossils from a 52-million-year-old lake include fish, reptiles, plants, birds and mammals.
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- Roadside oddities44.5506° N, 110.8062° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A boardwalk basin where bubbling mud pots, hot springs, fumaroles and geysers occur in one compact stop.
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- Roadside oddities44.4667° N, 110.8369° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
The world's tallest predictable fountain-type geyser, capable of sending powerful bursts high above the Upper Geyser Basin.
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- Roadside oddities44.5250° N, 110.8381° W
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A massive rainbow-ringed hot spring whose vivid microbial mats make it one of the strangest natural sights in the park.
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