Description
The Lower Canyon Falls, in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, is the biggest and most famous waterfall in the park. Â The 308 foot waterfall is perhaps the second most photographed scene in Yellowstone.
This view is from Inspirational Point, and focuses on the small tree that is growing on the right ledge just above the base of the falls.
The canyon’s colors were created by hot water acting on volcanic rock. It was not these colors, but the river’s yellow banks at its distant confluence with the Missouri River, that occasioned the Minnetaree Indian name which French trappers translated as roche jaune, or yellow stone.
