Friday, October 24, 2008

Tower Falls

It is unclear how many waterfalls there actually are in Yellowstone. Most counts put it over forty-five. However I was just watching a thing that said that waterfalls are still being discovered. This isn't out of the question since a large majority of the park is back country and Yellowstone is bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined.

2 comments:

Jim Macdonald said...

According to a fairly recent book on Yellowstone waterfalls, the actual number is closer to 300, but that depends on how you define a waterfall.

But, yes, some are still being discovered, though my guess is these guys have found most of them. There are some absolutely spectacular ones that they have only seen - and the few who have gone off trail to find what they've found.

Cheers,
Jim

Edwin E. Delano said...

Thanks, in trying to find a number of waterfalls in Yellowstone all I kept coming across was numbers in the 40s, which seemed low. I remember from the program I saw that the number was shockingly high and 300 would fit the bill.