Fountain Paint Pot Trail

Fountain Paint Pot Area is within the

Lower Geyser Basin. There are four types of hydrothermals.

They are geysers, hot springs, mudpots and fumaroles

 

The trail is a boardwalk tour of 1/2 mile, easy to navigate.

Water temperatures are as hot as 167 degrees F.

Approaching the Fountain Paint Pot

in the Lower Geyser Basin

The Celestine Pool on the boardwalk

Bacteria Mats

 

Mudpots - composed of clay minerals

and fine silica. By late summer

these mudpots become very thick

and their bubbles can actually lob mud over

the boardwalk rails

A recipe for Mud Pots

A fumarole which has a hissing

and roaring sound. It smells.

Define it as a vent in the surface of

 the Earth from which hot smoke and gases escape.

Another fumarole view

Fountain Geyser - Eruptions

can reach 20-50 feet and last 25

minutes or more

Spasm Geyser, another

of many geysers at the Fountain

Paint Pot Trail