These Yellowstone National Park tours show off amazing geothermal colors and a variety of large wild animals. How often have you seen stone with the color of yellow? Well, it's a natural occurrence in the first U.S. national park called Yellowstone. Sulfur, a result of ongoing geothermal activity in the park, promotes the yellow color. Half of all the geysers in the world are in Yellowstone, numbered at 500, with 300 of them pegged as spectacular. There are 10,000 thermal springs in Yellowstone. Furthermore, large numbers of wildlife call Yellowstone their home. It's a marvelous place to encounter.
A trained guide takes you to the sights on the 10-hour Explore Old Faithful tour. In this specific option of Yellowstone National Park tours, an 8 a.m. departure from Jackson, Wyoming, puts you through Yellowstone's South Entrance by about 10 a.m. You first visit Yellowstone's most noteworthy geyser, Old Faithful. General Henry Washburn named this geyser when he saw the repetitious five-minute show of scalding water being shot about 150 feet into the air in 1870. Stories about hot water used to result in odd looks for some old-timers. Jim Bridger, an 1800s trapper, talked of a river that ran so fast that its bottom got hot. Firehole River has hot springs bubbling up along its bed, so Bridger was somewhat right.
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