Norris Geyser Basin is a unique landscape of Yellowstone National Park. Far away, like an ancient battlefield of strange land, white and gray rock surface, hot mist floating, scattered, bare dead trees lying, standing. Look at it~ like a colorful palette, watery green, orange, purple, competing for the glory.

Norris Gap Spring is in the west of Yellowstone Park. There is a spring eye. The colors are dark blue and very beautiful, but there is hot spring water inside. It feels that Yellowstone Park is very rich in color.

Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest and most unstable series of geysers in Yellowstone, and the world's largest geysers are also located in this area. It only erupts once a long time ago. The last eruption was in 2008, and it set a record 380 feet of eruption height. The geysers in this area are also quite rich in color, with crystal clear blue-green, and soft blue-white like milk, because of its instability, there are new fountains every year, and there are old fountains that die. There are also orange or green rivers formed by fungi, which are very beautiful.

Caiguquan Fountain paint pot Puping the mud is like boiling soy milk, so some people call it "Mud Spring"! Anyway, this is a stop to be missed in Yellowstone Park, this small scenic spot, concentrated all four types of water heat in Yellowstone: geyser geyser, hot spring will boil over, mud pot mud pot and fumarole jet hole! The first thing I saw after entering the trail was that the Silex spring silicone spring appeared to be ocean-like blue, the water temperature was close to the boiling point and kept pouring out. Standing on the trail, you can clearly feel the heatwave.

Day 4: The deeper you go to Yellowstone, the more you feel the magic of nature. A fire in the 1980s burned Yellowstone all over. After decades of recovery, although you can still see the traces of the fire of the year, you can drive on the park road, between the Rocky Mountains, and the changing beauty constantly hit our eyes. I really want to take a god bag and put the beauty in the bag. Then you can look at it and enjoy it.

The Norris Geyser Basin is the most active and longest active geothermal region in North America, and has been around for about115000 years. This is the hottest area in all geothermal resources in Yellowstone, located at the intersection of three fault lines, including the fault line in the Norris-Mammoth corridor and the Hebgen Lake fault line (the fault line from the northwest of Huangshi Town to Norris in Congxi). Studies have shown that temperatures in the Norris area have reached 237 degrees Celsius 300 meters underground. In 2003, the area was also briefly closed due to rising rock temperatures in the surrounding area. Unlike other geyser basins in Yellowstone, geysers in the Norris region are acidic (geysers in other regions are basically alkaline), and different pH values between the springs produce different types of microorganisms, resulting in different surroundings and color of the springs. In addition, the geothermal landscape here will vary with the season. The browsing of the Norris area is mainly divided into two parts, Porcelain Basin and Back Basin. Most tourists will choose the former for browsing, because the distance is relatively short, and the walk down the plank road is only about 1 mile/1.6 kilometers. The Porcelain basin is the hottest place in Yellowstone, and although the water vapor after condensation makes it difficult for me to see the appearance of most geysers, it is easy to tell by sound that some springs are rolling. As I said, Porcelain Basin is the main area for visitors to visit Norris Geyser Basin. But today, most tourists seem to have lost interest in it, and there are only a few people on the boardwalk. Think about it, in such weather, people can see only the layers of water vapor floating, nothing else. Back Basin is more quiet than Porcelain Basin. The full-named about 2 miles/3 kilometers of browsing plank road may be a reason many people give up here, after all, the vast majority of tourists in Yellowstone stay more limited. Back Basin is located in a forest, and in order to see the whole attraction, I still walked the whole journey of Back Basin browsing the plank road in such a weather that is not suitable for browsing the geothermal landscape. After all, it is not easy to come here, and I have time. The geysers in the Back Basin area are mostly “quiet,” but this is only temporary. The Steamboat geysers in the area are the world’s tallest and still active geysers. Unlike the famous Old Faithful Geysers, which erupt frequently, the interval between two large-scale eruptions of Steamboat Geysers is usually long. According to the data, the longest large-scale eruption interval of Steamboat Geysers can be up to 50 years. Once erupting, the geyser can emit water columns up to 90 meters. In the interval between two large eruptions, Steamboat geysers usually have small eruptions, and their water columns can reach about 12 meters. In addition, Echinus Geyser within Back Basin is Yellowstone's largest acid geyser, which used to be very active and erupts every few hours, so it also attracted a lot of tourists. But in recent years, it has been much quieter. To be honest, I had great expectations for the Norris Geyser Basin before I came to Yellowstone, but maybe it was the weather, maybe it was Norris that was visually average here. Although I spent about two and a half hours on the Norris boardwalk, in the end there was too little memory left for me...

The weather in Yellowstone is unpredictable, because of the impact of geothermal, the weather forecast here will not be too accurate, it is said that the week before we came (end of May) is still snow, some of the mountains also see snow state. The day before, Yellowstone was still raining, but fortunately it was sunny when we visited. On the day we were preparing to leave the United States, we heard from the tour guide that it was snowing again in Yellowstone (mid June), so the weather here was really unpredictable, and the weather was really bad. It is estimated that the scenery that the leaves turn yellow in the autumn of September should be the most beautiful. I hope to drive back to Yellowstone Park next time in autumn.