Osprey Falls

Osprey Falls

Osprey Falls, ca. 1891
Location Yellowstone National Park, WY, US
Type Plunge
Total height 150 feet (46 m)
Watercourse Gardner River

Osprey Falls is a waterfall on the Gardner River in northwestern Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Osprey Falls has a drop of approximately 150 feet (46 m). The falls are located within Sheepeater Canyon and are reachable via the Osprey Falls trail which is accessed by the Bunsen Peak Loop drive.[1]

History

Members of the Hague Survey named the waterfall in 1885 for the osprey (Pandion haliaetus) that frequents Yellowstone Park.[1]

In 1886, in his Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback, George Wood Wingate, a former officer in the Union Army, described the falls:

It was a magnificent and most picturesque sight . . . The sides [of the canyon] drop from the brink above in almost perpendicular ledges, as steep as the Palisades on the Hudson River and four times their depth. Into this cleft in the rocks, the river plunges in one unbroken fall of over a hundred feet and then continues its fall in a series of cascades to the bottom of the dark chasm. The white fall, the tumbling water, and the dark shadows of the canon, make a striking picture.
— George W. Wingate, 1886.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Rubenstein, Paul; Whittlesey, Lee H.; Stevens, Mike (2000). The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and their Discovery. Neenah, WI: Westcliffe Publishers. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-56579-351-4.
  2. ↑ Wingate, George W. (1886). Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback. O. Judd Company. pp. 79–80.
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