This branch of the parkwide general stores has espresso coffee, waffles and root-beer floats served up at a fun retro soda-fountain counter that dates from 1931. Opening hours may be different when road construction hits in 2019–20.
Fishing Bridge Yellowstone General Store
Yellowstone National Park
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Canyon Visitor Education Center
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1. Fishing Bridge Visitor Center
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The displays of stuffed birds and wildlife inside this small center are less interesting than the historic 1931 building itself: built as an information…
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There has been a bridge at Fishing Bridge since 1902, but it closed to fishing in 1973 to protect spawning cutthroat trout – to the benefit of resident…
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The buttercup-yellow colonial Lake Yellowstone Hotel, dating from 1891, is the park’s oldest building and certainly its most elegant. Robert Reamer (who…
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America's iconic first national park, Yellowstone is home to over 60% of the world’s geysers – natural hot springs that periodically erupt in towering…
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These rapids are named after topographer Paul LeHardy, whose raft overturned here, spilling guns, provisions and bedding but sparing his life. Rock uplift…
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A fairly subdued geothermal area near Fishing Bridge, Mud Volcano still delights with the huffing, steaming maw of Dragon's Mouth Spring and the spectacle…
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From Artist Point a trail leads 1 mile (45 minutes) to this viewpoint for more fabulous views of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone's colorful walls,…
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Artist Point is probably the most famous of the canyon’s viewpoints, offering a long overview of the Lower Falls and canyon. It was not, as many people…