Turquoise Pool
Turquoise Pool is a hot spring in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Turquoise Pool has a temperature between 142 and 160 °F and was named by members of the Hayden Expedition of 1878.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Hot spring
- Description: hot spring in Teton County,Wyoming, United States of America
- Also known as: “Curtain Lake” and “MEG005”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Opal Pool and Excelsior Geyser.
Opal Pool
Geyser
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Opal Pool is a hot spring in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Opal Pool usually has a temperature of approximately 132 °F.
Excelsior Geyser
Geyser
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Excelsior Geyser Crater, formerly known as Excelsior Geyser, is a dormant fountain-type geyser in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Excelsior was named by Yellowstone superintendent P. W. Norris in 1881.
Grand Prismatic Spring
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica.
Turquoise Pool
- Category: body of water
- Location: Teton, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.52669° or 44° 31′ 36″ northLongitude
-110.8377° or 110° 50′ 16″ westElevation
7,257 feet (2,212 metres)Open location code
85PFG5G6+MWOpenStreetMap ID
way 269122366OpenStreetMap feature
natural=hot_spring
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Turquoise Pool” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Turquoise Pool”
- Danish: “Turquoise Pool”
- French: “Turquoise Pool”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Turquoise Pool”. Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.