Union Falls
Waterfall in WY, US
44°11′34″N 110°52′15″W / 44.19278°N 110.87083°W / 44.19278; -110.87083[1]Union Falls is a fan-type waterfall on Mountain Ash Creek, a tributary of the Fall River in the Cascade Corner (southwest) of Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, United States. With a height of 250 feet (76 m), it is the second tallest waterfall in Yellowstone, exceeded only by the lower Yellowstone Falls. The falls was named by members of the Arnold Hague Geological Surveys sometime between 1884 and 1886. Geologist J.P. Iddings claims the name derives from the fact that a tributary of Mountain Ash Creek joins at the very brink of the falls, thus Union Falls.[2] Access to the falls is via the Mountain Ash Creek trail and the Grassy Lake Road.
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Union Falls in Autumn
Notes
- ^ "Union Falls". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Whittlesey, Lee (1996). Yellowstone Place Names. Gardiner, MT: Wonderland Publishing Company. p. 174. ISBN 1-59971-716-6.
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Yellowstone National Park - Cascade Corner
Rivers, waterfalls, peaks and lakes in the Cascade Corner (Southwest) section of the park
- Bechler River
- Fall River
- Lewis River
- Bechler Falls
- Colonnade Falls
- Iris Falls
- Lewis Falls
- Moose Falls
- Terraced Falls
- Union Falls
- Douglas Knob
- Shoshone Lake
- Trischman Knob
- List of Yellowstone National Park related articles
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