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195:-These are situated four miles from the entrance to the canón, and are reached by a trail on the right of the road. The descent is quite steep, but the stalwart tourist wlll not regret the strain upon his muscles after a sight of the magnificent falls. The water tumbles over them in a foamy sheet, full eighty feet in depth, making a charming picture, full of life and vigor, which is in striking contrast to its setting or grim rocks and dusky pines. After leaving the falls and the foaming river, the road soon crosses Canón Creek, passing for the next eight miles over a succession of pine and fir clad terraces, the charms of which are apt to cloy, before the next attractive point is reached. 314: 571: 262: 274: 326: 302: 290: 1180: 29: 720: 233:
When the Washburn and Hayden parties traveled through the Firehole River and Gibbon River basins in the 1870s, the Gibbon River above Gibbon Falls was barren of fish, the falls being a natural barrier to upstream migration. Unlike the Yellowstone drainage, the upper Gibbon was isolated from any
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at the headwaters of the Gibbon. Today, the falls still block upstream migrations of spawning trout from the Madison River, but the upper Gibbon has become a consistent trout fishery because of these introductions.
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Gibbon Falls (8.5 miles) is a waterfall of very irregular outline, but withal one of much beauty. The road hangs on the side of the cliff far above it, and affords a lovely view of the forest-covered valley
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geological survey of 1872. There is no historical record as to how they got their name, but by the mid-1880s, they were routinely referred to as
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connection to drainages on the Pacific slope. The absence of fish was overcome in 1890 when the first
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In 1895, the road was on the opposite side of the river from where it runs today.
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Geothermal features, historic structures and other attractions in the
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Yellowstone Fishes-Ecology, History, and Angling in the Park
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were introduced into the river above the falls. In 1920,
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The Yellowstone National Park-Historical and Descriptive
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in both government and commercial accounts of the park.
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The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and their Discovery
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Yellowstone National Park-Historical and Descriptive.
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The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists
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The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists
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Yellowstone National Park
WY
US
Coordinates
44°39′14″N 110°46′16″W / 44.653825°N 110.77114°W / 44.653825; -110.77114
Type
Gibbon River
waterfall
Gibbon River
Yellowstone National Park
United States
Firehole Rivers
Grand Loop Road
William Henry Jackson
Hayden
Hiram M. Chittenden
Rainbow trout
Arctic Grayling
Grebe Lake
Falls of the Gibbon, 1883.
Color litho, Frank Jay Haynes, 1910
Frank Jay Haynes
Gibbon Falls, 1965
Winter, 1969
Spring runoff, 1993
May, 2003
Waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park
ISBN
978-1-56579-351-4

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