Opal Pool

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.

Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Geyser
Description: hot spring in Teton County, Wyoming, United States of America
Also known as: “MEG004”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Grand Prismatic Spring and Turquoise Pool.

Grand Prismatic Spring

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in the Yellowstone National Park, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica.

Turquoise Pool

Hot spring

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.

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.

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.

Opal Pool

Categories: hot spring and body of water
Location: Teton, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.52667° or 44° 31′ 36″ north

Longitude

-110.83872° or 110° 50′ 19″ west

Open location code

85PFG5G6+MG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 261812901

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=geyser

Wikidata ID

Q2009174

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Russian—“Opal Pool” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Opal Pool”
French: “Opal Pool”
Italian: “Opal Pool”
Korean: “오팔 풀”
Russian: “Опаловый гейзер”

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