Yellowstone Park - Sulphur Caldron and Fishing Bridge, Yellowstone

Sulphur Caldron and Fishing Bridge

- Gordon

cars on the Fishing Bridge

People allowed fishing
at Fishing Bridge
before 1973

Want to go fishing? Want to see acidic things? Go to Fishing Bridge, actually, long, long ago you could fish at Fishing Bridge, but now it’s illegal to fish at Fishing Bridge!!! Now all you can see is people who walk on the boardwalk, not fish on the boardwalk!!!

Sulphur Caldron is the most acidic mudpot in Yellowstone. Hold your nose, you don’t want to smell a lot of Sulphur. It smells like ewe, stinky, rotting fruit.

Sulphur Caldron and Fishing Bridge is very exciting. It is the BEST OF ALL!!!!!

              

Fishing Bridge, Mud Volcano, Yellowstone Lake,

and Sulphur Caldron



Beautiful view of tremendous Yellowstone Lake

* Aaron

               Some very exciting places are Fishing Bridge, Yellowstone Lake, Mud Volcano, and Sulphur Caldron. On the way there, we saw the Sulphur Caldron nearly as acidic as battery acid and the cool Mud Volcano! Fishing Bridge used to be a popular fishing spot for tourists in the 1900s. Do you know why they won’t let fishing on the Fishing Bridge anymore? Park managers found out that by fishing on the Fishing Bridge, the trout population would eventually disappear. We also saw the amazing Fishing Bridge Visitor Center. Trying to defend our sand ‘castles’ against the waves in Yellowstone Lake was a really awesome game. According to my dad, they look more like piles of bison dung. The most fun place in Yellowstone is Fishing Bridge.

Can you find a bison behind us?

Cooking Hillside
shake, then bake

Dragon's Mouth Spring
has continuously
loud sound

               The amazing Sulphur Caldron, the most acidic pool in Yellowstone, has pH (power of hydrogen) 1.  It is about the same as pH 0, battery acid. Across from the road, the Mud Volcano trail goes around in a loop to help people see many beautiful hydrothermal features. Some examples are the 170 Fahrenheit Churning Caldron, Grizzly Fumarole which is dry in the summer, Mud Volcano that had blown itself apart, and Dragon’s Mouth Spring that until 1994, used to throw muddy water over the railing. Look, a bison is taking a nap by the hot spring. It must want to warm up. Sulphur Cauldron and Mud Volcano trail are both the most magnificent place in Yellowstone.



Sulphur Caldron,
the most acidic pool in Yellowstone

Churning Caldron from a distance

roiling Churning Caldron

playing under Fishing Bridge

               Fishing Bridge is a very excellent place in Yellowstone. Cutthroat trout spawning grounds sat right beneath the Fishing Bridge so fishing was banned from there recently in 1973. The bridge is still a Yellowstone landmark even if fishing is illegal. Now, instead of people fishing on the Fishing Bridge, cars drive across the Yellowstone River on the bridge. The Fishing Bridge is a very interesting place.

holding up a heavy bison head

elk head

               The Fishing Bridge Visitor Center is very awesome. It had bison skulls, feathers, horns, bighorn sheep horns, elk skulls with horns, and backbones. There were also many stuffed birds to show visitors where each bird lives. Some of the birds were California gulls, woodpeckers, and finches. If you are lucky enough, you may get a chance to hear a very funny and informational speech from park rangers.

 

Yellowstone lake and snowy mountain

 

building sand castles
at the beach of Yellowstone Lake

              The Fishing Bridge Visitor Center has a short path leading to the Yellowstone Lake. Playing and splashing around in the Yellowstone Lake is very exciting. Our sand ‘castles’ looked like lumps of shapeless clay to me. My brother had the job of building the defenses of the castles. I got the job of trying to stop all of the waves from hitting our castles. We worked together and our castles still survived for an hour. The Yellowstone Lake is a very wonderful place.



hot spring

               Yellowstone Lake, Sulphur Caldron, Mud Volcano, and Fishing Bridge are very magnificent. The Sulphur Caldron and Mud Volcano trail all show famous features of Yellowstone. Fishing Bridge continues to be an important Yellowstone landmark after decades of not letting people fish on the bridge. The Fishing Bridge Visitor Center tells lots of wonderful facts about plants and animals. Playing in the Yellowstone Lake was very exciting. Yellowstone Lake, Sulphur Cauldron, Mud Volcano, and Fishing Bridge are all famous parts of Yellowstone.



bison resting at Cooking Hillside