this area is home to some of Yellowstone's best trails. For the endurance hikers, the out-and-back nearly 10-mile Seven Mile Hole Trail boasts a 2,000-foot elevation gain and is one of the trails ...

Sitting in the heart of Yellowstone's West Thumb area is Yellowstone Lake, the park's largest body of water and the largest high-elevation lake above 7,000 feet in North America. The lake is 20 ...

the Yellowstone region is an elevated plateau, with an average elevation of 8,000 feet (2,400 meters). The high elevation is caused by uplift due to its location atop a zone of mantle upwelling ...