Artist's Paint Pots

Finishing our tour of the Artist's Paint Pots area of Yellowstone we come to the mud pots near the top of Pint Pot Hill. The walk through this area is about a mile from the parking lot and involves a short climb up that hill to the mud pots from which one loops back down to the lower area and the features there. Mud pots, areas of boiling mud, are found in different places in Yellowstone. Here the mud is white or gray. In other areas it is black or reddish. One of the times we were here the mud was splattering all over the boardwalk and we had to be careful it did not get on us. The other insets show the boiling and bubbling mud as well as the view from Paint Pot Hill near these features.