Fountain Paint Pot
The Fountain Paint Pot is a mud pot located in Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. The Fountain Paint Pot is named for the reds, yellows and browns of the mud in this area.Photo: Yellowstone National Park, Public domain.
- Type: Hot spring
- Description: Yellowstone mud pool
- Also known as: “Chalk Vat”, “Devils Paintbox”, “Fountain Geyser”, “Fountain Paintpots”, “Mammoth Paintpot”, “Mud Puff”, and “Paint Vat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Red Spouter and Jet Geyser.
Jet Geyser
Geyser
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Jet Geyser is a geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Jet Geyser is in the Fountain Group that includes Fountain Geyser, Morning Geyser, Red Spouter and Silex Spring.
Fountain Geyser
Geyser
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fountain Geyser is a geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Fountain is the dominant member of a group of geysers at the Fountain Paint Pots thermal area. Morning Geyser, which erupts from a vent close to Fountain's, is larger, but is inactive during most years.
Fountain Paint Pot
- Categories: mudpot and body of water
- Location: Teton, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.55061° or 44° 33′ 2″ northLongitude
-110.80624° or 110° 48′ 23″ westElevation
7,306 feet (2,227 metres)Open location code
85PFH52V+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 304716872OpenStreetMap feature
natural=hot_spring
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Polish—“Fountain Paint Pot” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fountain Paint Pot”
- French: “Fountain Paint Pot”
- Polish: “Fountain Paint Pot (Yellowstone)”
- Polish: “Fountain Paint Pot”
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