Yellowstone National Park

Mammoth Hot Springs

If you enter Yellowstone from the north, Mammoth Hot Springs is the first village you will enter in the park and it is from here you will see your first hot springs.

There is food here at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Dining Room and at the General Store & Terrace Grill. There is also a post office that you can mail letters and post carts home from.

Mammoth Hot Springs is at the north entrance to the park. It is our belief that this entrance never closes as other entrances do in the winter months.

When we reached the Village of Mammoth Hot Springs, a fairly large heard of elk walked through the area, stopping traffic and giving the hundreds to park visitors in the area a wonderful photo opportunity.

Park animals are wild and therefore dangerous.

A word of warning about wildlife in the park, they may look fuzzy and friendly but they are wild animals that may look at you as a threat and attack. Several people have been injured when they left their car and got too close to buffalo or other wild animals. Animals with young are especially dangerous and if you get between them and their young they WILL ATTACK. Please stay safely in your car or well clear of the animals.

The Village lies on a level shelf of land below the Hot Springs. It is a relaxing and comfortable place to rest, eat, and stay.

The post office building is the building at top left.

Photos takes of hot springs and chemical accumulations at Mammoth Hot Springs

You can see accumulations of chemicals that have precipitated from the hot waters that come out of the hot springs. As the accumulations grow they kill near by vegetation as you can see by the dead trees surrounded by the chemical accumulations.

There is about a five mile drive through the Mammoth Hot Springs with several parking areas and board walks to view different attractions in the area.

Stay on the walkways

We should note here that you should never leave the walkways as you could fall through the crust into superheated water or chemicals below at any of the geothermal sites in the park.

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