iiNJN PACIFIC RA1IWAY
YELLOWSTONE PARK
University of California • Berkeley
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
HOW TO SEE
Yellowstone National Park
HE purpose of this pamphlet is not so much to describe the scenic wonders of Yellowstone Park, as to state some of the more important facts in relation to it, and to provide the more general and necessary information required by the tourist who makes a tour of the park. Our tourist book, "Wonderland," issued annually (see page 17 this folder), depicts the phenomena of the park at length.
Yellowstone Park was established by the Government in 1872. Subsequently a Timber Reserve was added on the east and south sides. The park proper is about 62 miles long from north to south, 54 miles wide, and has an area of 3,312 square miles. It is mostly in Northwestern Wyoming, a narrow strip being in Montana and Idaho. It is situated about midway between St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth on the east, and Seattle, Tacoma and Portland on the North Pacific Coast. The park is an elevated plateau surrounded by mountains, and has an average elevation above sea level of 7,500 feet. Large streams of lava have spread over the park which have been greatly modified by glacial action and erosion.
The Government has entire control of the park. All new roads opened and the repairs and maintenance of old roads and trails are entirely dependent upon congressional appropriations. The roads are now in good condition, a great deal of work and expense having recently been put upon them, and steel and con- crete bridges have largely replaced wooden ones. Within two years the Government has spent $500,000 in improvements in the park. Prominent among these is the construction of a new concrete viaduct at Golden Gate to replace the old timber trestle, at a cost of $10,000, and the erection of a very fine concrete and steel bridge of artistic design across the Yellow- stone River and rapids, just above the upper fall of the Yellowstone at the Grand Canon. This latter improvement has long been needed, and means much added enjoyment to the tourist in being able to now see the canon from both sides.
Fort Yellowstone, the military post in the park, is at Mammoth Hot Springs. Here, also, are the headquarters of the U. S. Engineer in charge of park improvements and the U. S. Commis- sioner. Mammoth Hot Springs is thus the Cap- ital of the Park.
There are four troops of United States cavalry quartered in the park in summer. These care- fully patrol the roads and other parts of the park, and preserve the phenomena from spolia- tion. During the winter season the force is somewhat reduced but the park is patrolled. AM ruiTiwr- com As a place to spend the heated months no spot in NU SfUl this country can possibly compare with the park. Its elevation above sea level and its location In the heart of the -'Rockies" amid some of earth's grandest and most inspiring scenery, combined with the extreme purity of the atmosphere, the beneficial effects of the hot mineral water baths, and the fine character of the hotels, particularly those at Upper Geyser Basin and at Yellowstone Lake, the latter having been rebuilt
and enlarged, make it a remarkable pleasure spot and sanitarium. The days are never oppressively hot and the nights are always cool. unw Tf» PTT TUCDC '1'1'e natural entrance to the park is from HUW IU Utl IHtKt the n()rth by way of Livingston, the Gate of the Mountains, and the Upper Yellowstone river to Gardiner.
This is the route of the Northern Pacific, the only railway line that touches the park, and it is the official entrance to the park through the new and imposing Government Lava Arch, the corner stone of which was laid by the President of the United States in 1903.
The Northern Pacific has recently erected, from boulders and symmetric pine logs, what is, perhaps, the most unique and attrac- tive small railway station in the country. It is immediately oppo- site the entrance arch at Gardiner, at the base of Electric Peak and Sepulcher Mountain.
Pullman Standard Sleeping
Cars are run between St. Paul,
Minneapolis and
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FORT YELLOWSTONE, MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS.
Gardiner, and between Gardiner and the North Pacific Coast, both west bound and east bound, solely to accommodate park travel. For details regarding this train service see regular time-card folder.
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS HOTEL AND STAGE COACHES.
THE PARIf TDIIR vv "''L 's known as tnc regular park tour I nt rAnK IUUK begins and ends at Livingston, and includes six days south of that point, the tourist being in the park proper five and one-half days. The tourist should, however,
become fully imbued with the , fact that this trip is presented simply as the maximum of sight-seeing at a minimum of time and expense. If possible, the tourist should remain longer in the park — within sea- son limits, June I to September 30 — and thus see it better and more thoroughly.
There are many who cannot well spare ^ time to make an ex- tended trip, but those who can should by all means plan to stop two or more days, or even weeks, at each hotel. There is so much to see at each point that sev- eral days may easily and profitably be thus spent and those who act wisely will do this and in this way obtain a much better idea of the wonderful and varied character of the phenomena in the park. There is no reason for not "doing" the park as leisurely as one may and there is no additional charge for trans- portation where one extends one's tour beyond the usual limit. After leaving Livingston, the tourist travels for 54 miles on the Yellowstone Park branch line amidst fine scenery, passing through the Gate of the Mountains, Paradise valley, Yankee Jim's canon, and by Emigrant peak, Cinnabar mountain and the Devil's Slide
to Gardiner, the official gateway to the park, where the coaches of the transportation company are taken to Mammoth Hot Springs, 5 miles distant, reached in time for luncheon.
The six principal points visited by tourists are Mammoth Hot Springs, Norris, Lower and Upper geyser basins, Yellowstone lake and the Grand canon.
Other points passed en route are Silver and Golden gates, Rustic fall, Willow park, Apollinaris spring, Obsidian cliff, Beaver and Twin lakes, Roaring mountain. Gibbon canon and fall, Midway geyser basin, Keppler cascade, Shoshone point, Yellowstone Lake paint pots, Mud volcano and Gothic grotto, the North-
ern Pacific trademark, formed by nature on
Trout creek in Hayden valley, Crater hills, Yellowstone
rapids and the Upper
fall near Grand canon, and Virginia cascade, besides many other objects too numerous to mention.
The Park Itinerary, approximately, is here given, the tourist being carried between Livingston and Gardiner on Park Branch N. P. R. trains that connect with the main line trains at Livingston.
FIRST DAY— Leave Livingston at 9.1O a. m. on N. P. R. branch line train; arrive Gardiner 11.40 a. m.; leave Gardiner at 12.00 noon by stage coach; arrive Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel 12. 50 p. m., taking lunch, dinner and lodging.
SECOND DAY— Breakfast. Leave Mammoth Hot Springs at 8.00 a. m., arriving at Norris at noon for lunch; leave at 1.30 p. m.. and arrive at Fountain Hotel, Lower Geyser Basin, at 5.30 p. m. for dinner and lodging.
THIRD DAY — Breakfast. Leave for Midway and Upper Geyser basins at 9.00 a. m. Lunch, dinner and lodging at Old Faithful Inn, Upper Geyser Basin.
FOURTH DAY— Breakfast. Leave for West Arm of Yellowstone Lake at 8.00 a. m. Lunch at lake and leave for new Yellowstone Lake Hotel at lake outlet at 2.00 p. m. Dinner and lodging at La"ke Hotel.
FIFTH DAY— Breakfast at Yellowstone Lake. Leave for Grand Canon at 9.30 a. m. via Sulphur Mountain; arrive Grand Canon at 12.30 p. m. Lunch, din- ner and lodging.
SIXTH DAY — Breakfast. Leave Grand Canon at 9.00 a. m Lunch at Norris. Arrive Mammoth Hot Springs at 4.30 p, m. Dinner. Leave Mammoth Hot Springs at 6.30 p. m., arriving at Gardiner at 7.1$ p. m.; leave Gardiner at 7. 3O p. m. on N. P. R. branch line train, arrive Livingston at lo.oo p. m.
The first stage will leave Mammoth Hot Springs for regular tour of the Park on the morning of June i; the last stage for the season covering regular tour will leave Mammoth Hot Springs morning of September 30, and returning, will leave the Springs for Gardiner the evening of October 4.
This schedule, including train service on Park branch, may be altered by the transportation companies at any time to correspond with changes made necessary in the time of through transconti- nental trains at Livingston.
A round trip, including the usual park trip, requires about eleven days from Chicago and St. Louis, and nine days from St. Paul, Duluth, Minneapolis, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.
WHMFRflllQ QIOF TRIPS *nat can ^e made and not embraced MJIVltKUUo olUt Inlro in the regular scheduled tour are: A
trip to Yancey's for fishing purposes, and a trip to the canon and fall of the Middle Gardiner river, from Mammoth Hot Springs; a visit from the Fountain hotel to the springs and pools round about Great Fountain geyser; a trip to Biscuit basin and one to Lone Star geyser from Old Faithful Inn; fishing or camping trips from the new Lake Hotel to points on Yellowstone lake or river; the fine trip from the Grand canon to the top of Mount Washburn by the new road from the Canon hotel; a trip across Yellowstone river and down the south side of the Grand canon, now made possible by the construction of the new bridge above the upper fall.
Tourists often prefer to ride rather than walk about Mammoth Hot Springs, the Geyser basins and the Grand Cation. The extra ^—^ charges for such tourist wagon trips, per passenger, are
as follows:
Mammoth Hot Springs $1.00
Lower Geyser Basin 50
Upper Geyser Basin 50
Grand Canon i.oo
Those desiring to camp out, fish, etc., should consult the transportation company. CYPIlRCinW RATFQ Tlie tourist season
EXCURSION RATES extends {rom June ,
to September 30, 1904. During the season the Northern Pacific Railway has on sale excur- sion tickets, the use of which by the tourist will prove a great convenience. The various classes of excursion tickets are as follows:
S5.OO TICKET— Includes rail and stage transportation Livingston to Mammoth Hot Springs and return.
$7.OO TICKET— Includes rail and stage transportation Livingston to Mammoth Hot Springs and return and two meals (lunch and dinner) at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.
$28. OO TICKET-Includes rail transportation Living- ston to Gardiner and return, and stage transportation Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs, Norris, Lower and Upper Geyser basins, Yellowstone Lake. Grand Canon and Falls of the Yellowstone and return. This ticket does not cover hotel accommodations.
$49.5O TICKET— Includes rail transportation Living- ston to Gardiner and return, stage Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs. Norris, Lower and Upper Geyser basins, Yellowstone Lake, Grand Canon and Falls of the Yellow- stone and return, and not to exceed five and one-half days' accommodations at the Park Association hotels.
$45.OO TICKET— Includes rail transportation from St .Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth or the Superiors to Gardiner and return to anyone of the above-named points, or via BillinKS and the " Burlington " to Missouri River.
$47. 5O TICKET— Includes rail and stage transporta- tion St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth or the Superiors to Mammoth Hot Springs and return to any one of the above-named points, or via Billings and the "Burlington" to Missouri River.
$55.OO TICKET— Includes rail transportation from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth or the Superiors to Gardiner and return to any one of the above-named points, or via
CLEOPATRA TERRACE AND GIANT'S THUMB. MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS
ROAD IN GARDINER CANON, EAGLE NEST CRAQ AT THE RIGHT. 6
Billings and the " Burlington " to Missouri River, and stage transportation Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs, Norris, Lower and Upper Geyser basins, Yellowstone Lake. Grand Cafion and Falls of the Yellowstone and return. This ticket does not cover hotel accommodations.
S75.OO TICKET -Includes rail transportation from St. Paul, Minneapolis. Duluth or the Superiors to Gardiner and return to any one of the above-named points, or via Billings and the "Burlington" to Missouri River: stage trans- portation Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs, Norris, Lower and Upper Geyser basins, Yellowstone Lake, Grand Canon and Falls of the Yellowstone and return. and hotel accommodations for not to exceed five and one-half days at Yellow- stone Park Association hotels.
S1O5.OO TICKET— Includes rail transportation from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth or the Superiors to Gardiner, stage transportation Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs, Norris, Lower, and Upper Geyser basins, Yellowstone Lake, Grand Caiion, Falls of the Yellowstone and Monida, hotel accommodations for not to exceed six and one-quarter days between Gardiner and Monida and rail trans- portation from Monida either via Oregon Short Line R. R. and Union Pacific to Missouri River points or via O. S. L. R. R. to Ogden. any line Ogden to Denver thence via either the B. & M. R. R. R., Union Pacific R. R.. A. T. Sc 8. F. Ry., C. R. I. & P. Ry. or Mo. Pac. Ry. to Missouri River terminals.
S84.OO TICKET— This ticket covers rail and stage transportation ONLY (no meals or lodging being included therein! for the same tour as the S1O5.OO ticket.
The S5.OO and S7.OO tickets will be sold at Livingston May 31 to October 4, 19O4, inclusive, and at St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and the Superiors and at •western terminals May 29 to October 2. 19O4, inclusive. Tickets must be used from Livingston not later than morning: train of Oct. 4, 19O4.
The $28.Op and $49.5O tickets will be sold at Livingston May 31 to Septem- ber 29, 19O4, inclusive, and at St. Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth and the Superiors and at •western terminals May 29 to September 27. 19O4, inclusive. Tickets must be used from Livingston not later than morning train of September 29, 19O4.
The $45.OO and $47.50 tickets will be sold at St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and the Superiors May 29 to October 2, 19O4, inclusive; the $55. OO. $75. OO, $84.OO and S1O5.OO tickets will be sold at St. Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth and the Superiors May 29 to September 27, 19O4, inclusive. These tickets -will bear going transit limit 30 days: return transit limit 1O days; final return limit 9O days, but not later than October 14, 19O4. Stop-overs allowed within limits. The trip through the park must be completed by October 4, 19O4.
Half of the S5.OO $28.OO, S45.OO, $47.6O. $55.OO and S84.OO rates will be made for children of five years of age or over and under twelve years of age. Half of the S7.OO, $49.5O, $75.OO and S1O5.OO rates will not be made for children, but children five years of age or over and under TEN years of age will be granted half rates locally at the Yellowstone Park Association hotels.
The $45.OO ticket must he validated for return passage at Gardiner and presented on train on or "within one day of such date.
The $47. 5O ticket must be validated for return passage at Mammoth Hot Springs hotel and presented on train on or within one day of such date. The $55.0O. $75.OO, $84.OO and S1O5.OO tickets must be validated for return passage at Grand Canon hotel.
From Chicago and St. Louis round-trip tickets, corresponding to the above, •will be sold at rates $10. OO higher than from St. Paul.
BLACK-TAIL DEER ON PARADE GROUND, FORT YELLOWSTONE.
RDADQ Through the wise, though somewhat belated, action of the KU A U o Government, the park roads have now reached an advanced stage of perfection. New roads have been constructed, old ones repaired and realigned, cut-offs made, grades reduced, roadbed solidified, etc., until a great change has been made in them. More than this, a system of road sprinkling has been established that will largely eradicate the trouble from dust that has at times been provoking. One hundred miles of roads will be sprinkled during 1904, large four-horse wagons being used for the purpose. Among new roads recently constructed are two pieces at the Grand Canon; one to the summit of Mt. Washburn and another down the South side of the Grand Canon. The latter will be much used and appreciated by tourists, for it will enable them to see the Grand Canon, the climax of the park and of earthly grandeur, from both sides, something heretofore impossible. The value of this to the tourist can hardly be overstated.
TLJC TDAMCDDDTATiniu equipment in the park consists of the I Ht I KANoKUK I A I IUN well-known Abbott-Downing Concord stage coaches made especially to fit the necessities of park travel and drawn by four horses each. . Strong and durable, they are light, easy to get in and out of, and OPEN at the sides so that the passengers can easily see the country while riding along.
The transportation company have various classes of vehicles ranging from two-horse surreys and mountain wagons, seating three and five passengers each, respectively, to four-horse coaches of two and three seats each, seating seven and eleven persons, respectively, and they will endeavor to seat congenial persons or parties in the same vehicle for the trip when requested so to do. Large six-horse coaches run between Gardiner and Mammoth Hot Springs. These seat from twenty to thirty persons each.
ORANGE GEYSER, MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS.
The coaching trip in the park is the finest one in the United States. Coaches, drivers and horses all are of the best.
Stop-overs will be given at or south of Mammoth Hot Springs without extra charge.
"Parties" desiring to stop en route and retain exclusive use of the coach in which they commenced their journey can do so on payment of from $6 to $1 5 per day additional, depending upon the size of the coach in which they are traveling.
Children five years of age or over and under twelve years, will be granted half rates on the railway and stagecoaches. Children under five years of age will be carried free by rail and stage coach. Chil- dren five years of age or over and under ten years of age will be granted, locally in the Park, half rates at the hotels. Children ten years of age and over will be required to pay full rates at the hotels.
Between the lunch station at the west arm of Yellowstone lake and the new hotel at the outlet of the lake, the tourist has the option of riding either in the coaches, or, by the payment of a moderate, additional sum, taking the steel-screw steamer on the lake, for a delightful lake ride between those points. The steamer, however, has no connection with the transportation company, hence an additional fare is necessary.
TUC DADI/ unrri c are first-class in every respect, and the IHt KAflrY HUlBLa Oid hotels have recently been greatly improved and modernized. They are all electric lighted, steam heated and advantageously located.
The location and capacity of each hotel is : Mammoth Hot Springs Norris Geyser Basin (lunch station) Lower Geyser Basin (Fountain Hotel)
Upper Geyser Basin (Old Faithful Inn) "Juliet of Yellowstone Lake -
250 guests 25 guests 250 guests 2;o guests 250 guests 250 guests
Grand Canon -.- „
The hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs is near the terraces and Liberty Cap, and across the plaza from Fort Yellowstone; that at Norris overlooks the basin; the Fountain hotel is not far from the Fountain Geyser and the Mammoth Paint Pots; Old Faithful Inn at the Upper Basin is near Old Faithful and other geysers; the Lake hotel is near the point where Yellowstone river issues from the lake,
and it overlooks Yellowstone lake, and the Grand Canon hotel is within easy walking distance of the Lower fall and Point Lookout.
Within recent years the hotel situation has been completely changed. The hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs has been much improved and its capacity largely increased, while a roomy and attractive lunch station has been erected at Norris Geyser Basin.
Old Faithful Inn, constructed at Upper Geyser Basin in 1903, will become one of the most attractive and popular hotels in the country. It is a structure of boulders and logs, peaks, angles, dormers, French windows, etc., artistically combined. The office is 75 feet square and 85 feet high to the peak of the roof, with bal- conies around three sides. A massive chimney 14 feet square and 85 feet high with a fireplace at each side and corner, or eight fire- places in all, is a feature of this room The dining room is a room 60 feet square, with a fine outlook.
The log element has been handled in a remarkably effective manner. Natural logs and limb crooks have been utilized in stairways and balconies and wherever possible. Old Faithful geyser is near the hotel ; opposite and but a trifle farther away are the Giantess, Lion, Bee Hive, Lioness and Cubs; down the little valley the Castle is in plain view, and the eruptions of the Grand and Economic can be seen from its corridors, rooms and verandas. A particular feature of this inn will be a searchlight on top of the building which will be operated at night, showing the geysers in play under electric light.
At Yellowstone lake the old hotel has been practically recon- structed. It has been doubled in size and given an mposing, stately, colonial front with large columned porches at each end and in the center — three in all. Of all the hotels and stopping places in the park this is the most restful. The outlook up the lake, 20 miles long, is one that stirs yet rests the emotions. The rippling, shimmering waters are framed on the east by the Abso- rc-ka range, which extends the entire length of the lake, and at the
GREAT FOUNTAIN GEYSER, YELLOWSTONE PARK.
south Mt. Sheridan rises veiled in a purple haze. Here are the fish- ing grounds par excellence. One who has never fished before may here catch a mess of salmon trout with ease, and the professional may cast his fly in the river or troll over the lake with keen enjoy- ment. For a month's rest the Lake hotel is the best in the park.
The hotel at the Grand Canon is on an elevated spot which gives a wide view including Hayden valley, Crater hills, or Sulphur mountain, and a glimpse of the Upper fall of the Yellowstone.
There is a good orchestra at each hotel.
THF UNIFORM RATF a* P»rk hotels for a stay not exceeding nc UrairUnm MA It seven days la «4.OO per day. After seven days the rate is $3.50 per day.
TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES can be sent from the association hotels to any part of the world.
EXCELSIOR GEYSER.
TABLE OF PROMINENT GEYSERS AND SPRINGS.
BASED UPON CAREFUL AND RECENT OBSERVATIONS.
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Turquoise Spring |
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Blue; loo ft. Iv colored |
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30-40 min. 30 min. ay. strangel 1V4 hrs. phenomena interesting |
5 hours. Plavs from 4 openings. V colored; 40-60 ft. wide. 8-11 hours, seen here. geysers. |
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165 200 125 78 100 3 to 10 50 10 to 30 200 25 100 30 100 30 20 250 20 200 125 30 20 to 40 60 100 60 Sponge-like Beautiful s Two very coloring ! Beautiful s Lovely spr Peculiar sp beautiful |
7 min. 10 "- 10 to 20 hrs. 8 to 14 mill. 12 " 20 " 26 " 30 to GO " 1 to 3 hrs. 30 to 60 min. 20 " 12 " 12to30 " 2 ' 30to40 ' 90 ' 10 to 20 ' 10 to 20 ' 60 ' 1 ' 2 ' 10 ' 5 hrs. 5 min. walls abou Dring, some nteresting lere. jring. 45-5C ng with deli at with geys pools. |
IK-75 minutes. Several times a week. 8 to 12 days. 2 to 5 times daily. Irregular. Frequent. Irregular. Every 2 to 4 hours. Several times a week. Irregular. 6 to 7 hours. 3 hours. Daily. Every 6 minutes. 3 to 5 hours. 4 to 7 days. 8 hours. Irregular. 12 to 15 hours. 6 minutes. Every half hour. Every 2 hours. Several times a week. Every 3 hours, spring, times an active geyser, pots: Some very fine feet wide, cate colored rim. erite biscuit and many |
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AND CONNECTIONS.
3- jo-' '04 POOLS BBOB CHICAGO.
UJADM PI nruiwp should be worn, and one should be prepared IIWU for changes of weather and altitude. Good everyday clothes, golf and bicycle suits are suitable for both men and women for park traveling. A change suit for evening and dinner is desirable and a dress suit will be found convenient at the hotels.
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CASTLE GEYSER. YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Wraps should be kept at hand and thick-soled shoes worn, as at Mammoth Hot Springs and among the geysers tiny streams of warm water may be encountered. Tinted glasses and service- able gloves should certainly be a part of one's outfit and a few simple remedies should be at hand in one's valise.
A charge is made for hauling trunks between Gardiner and Mammoth Hot Springs and beyond, and they can be stored at the railway station at Livingston, if preferred, free of charge. It is not wise to take a trunk beyond the Springs hotel unless the tourist remains more than the usual time in the park, and special arrangements must be made to this end with the transportation com- pany at Mammoth Hot Springs.
While it is advisable for those who go south of Mammoth Hot Springs to take a trunk as far as the Springs, a medium-sized grip or valise and a shawl strap will hold all that is necessary for the ordinary tour in the park. Laundering can be done for tourists at the Mammoth Hot Springs hotel while the trip through the park is being made.
nnvm nouiur Tne disciples of Izaak Walton feel at home in ROYAL FlbHINh Yellowstone Park. There is lots of fishing and it is free to everybody under certain and easy restrictions.
Some years since the United States Fish Commission planted different varieties of fish in various waters of the park. The re- sults have been such that, coupled with the fine fishing found before that time in Yellowstone lake and river, the streams in nearly all portions of the reserve now teem with trout of numerous species, grayling, brook trout, Loch Leven, etc., making this region the finest trout park in the world.
In the region of Mammoth Hot Springs, the ordinary Rocky Mountain Trout (Salmo My kiss) are found in the Yellowstone river at Yankee Jim's Canon, and Rainbow Trout (Salmo Irideus] and Eastern Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis) in the Gardiner river and tributaries.
From Norris Basin as a center, one will find Rainbow trout in the Gibbon river above Virginia cascade.
At Lower Geyser Basin, the gamy Von Baer trout are found in Nez Perce creek near by.
At the Upper Basin there is royal sport. Here the Loch Leven (Salmo Levenensis] trout are found in Fire Hole river. These fish were placed by the Fish Commis- sion above the Keppler cascade, and now they are found both above and below. An old-time angler who had fished all over the West, has said, regarding the trout fishing here: "Stopping four days at Upper Geyser Basin, our party (ten people) caught all we wanted to eat every day of the beautiful and gamy Loch Leven trout, right in the waters of the Fire Hole River, just below the 'Lion,' 'Lioness' and 'Cubs' geysers. These fish have a golden yellow tinge, spots are black, and the flesh is fine- grained and hard, even when caught from waters tempered with the hot flood from geysers and thermal springs."
At Yellowstone Lake Hotel, in the river below the outlet, there have been some famous catches of salmon trout with a fly, and trolling on the lake itself is attended with success. At the Grand Canon between the Upper and Lower Falls both the Rocky Mountain and Eastern brook trout may be caught.
Grayling are found in the Madison and Gallatin rivers, and Whitefish in the Yellowstone lake and river, Twin Lakes and the Madison and Gardiner rivers.
Yancey's, some eighteen miles from Mammoth Hot Springs — reached also by trail from the Grand Canon — is a famous place for trout fishing. This has always borne the reputation of affording the finest sport of any place in the park. As it is
at present out of the line of the regular trip
a special ex- cursion is necessary
DETAIL OF STAIRWAY. ••OLD FAITHFUL INN."
CASTLE GEYSER CONE.
to reach it. It is doubtful if there is now any stream of moderate size, where trout may not be caught. At any rate, anyone who desires to indulge in this pastime has ample opportunity, both as to place and time, on the regular scheduled tour. TUC * MIMA l viwrnniw within recent years the increase in THE ANIMAL KINhUUM. the number of wild animals is very noticeable. The careful protection now accorded them causes them to multiply, and besides large numbers of bear, deer, moun- tain sheep, antelope, etc., there are a number of buffalo and many thousands of elk roaming the Park. The animals are harmless, and offer to molest no one.
As a matter of fact, the animals now attract about as much attention as do the geysers, falls, etc.
The elk and deer have become quite unconcerned regarding human beings and are not infrequently seen near the roadside and grazing in the vicinity of the hotels. The tourist season in the park is the annual feast time or vacation period for the bears — grizzlies, brown and black. Morning and evening they frequent
the garbage heaps and wax fat and sleek upon what the hotels throw away. Then the tourists flock out to watch and kodak the animals and extract a great amount of fun out of the antics of the beasts.
Early in the Fall the animals come down from the hills and remain in the valleys during the winter and
INTERIOR OF WAITING ROOM, N. P. RY. STATION AT GARDINER spring DuHllg
this time the traveler who will run up to Gardiner from Liv- ingston for a day or two will see, on the flats and hills between Gardiner and Mammoth Hot Springs, many mountain sheep, ante- lopes, deer and elk. The sheep and antelopes are often thus seen in large herds.
The buffalo, or bison, are in two herds. Those indigenous to the region are found in remote portions of the park and number perhaps twenty-five. Fecently a fresh lot of these animals has been bought by the Government and placed in the park and these are to be seen in a large pasture at Mammoth Hot Springs. It is hoped that by carefully watching and caring for them, these late arrivals will multiply and replenish the species, and already some success has been attained.
PARK I ITFRATIIRF ^nat has been written will serve to con- rAnri LilLriAIUnt vev something of an idea regarding the park and how to see it. For a more detailed description of the park from a scenic standpoint the reader is referred to our tourist literature.
Each year the Northern Pacific Railway publishes a profusely illustrated "Wonderland" book of more than one hundred pages descriptive of the region which it traverses. This publication, which has become widely known, is not a reissue of any previous edition, but is entirely new and fresh both in text and illustration each year and always has a long chapter devoted to the park. The book can be obtained by sending six cents to A. M. Cleland, General Passenger Agent Northern Pacific Railway, St. Paul, Minn., or can be had free and in mailing envelopes at the hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs. The six cents barely covers cost of postage. The book for 1904 is known as "Wonderland 1904."
For fifty cents, "Wild Flowers from Yellowstone," the daintiest flower book souvenir published, will be sent. It contains six half- tone illustrations of park scenery and eleven specimens of real wild flowers from the park, pressed and in their natural colors, together with their common and botanical names and a statement where the flowers may be found.
After June 15, 1904, Mr. Cleland will send to any address, upon receipt of thirty-five cents, a large, finely colored Panoramic Picture of the park. This picture is unlike anything heretofore published,
YELLOWSTONE LAKE.
has been prepared at great expense, re-produces all the important points and topography of the park, and is valuable for the home, school-room, office and library. It will be mailed in tubes.
The Northern Pacific desires to call special attention to "The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904," a work just from the press of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. This two-volume edition of Lewis and Clark has been prepared by Mr. Olin D. Wheeler, the well-known writer of the Northern Pacific's "Wonderland" series. It is profusely illustrated from photographs, maps and paintings made under the direction of writer who, for many years, has made a study of the subject, and has visited all the important points on the trail of the explorers and is thus familiar, from personal travel and knowledge, with the country in question. The work gives in an entirely new way the story of the great across-continent explo- ration instigated by Thomas Jefferson, recounts the history of the individual members of the expedition as far as known, correlates Western historical events, and shows the progress and changes which have occurred in the region in one hundred years. The celebration of the Louisiana Purchase at St. Louis in 1904, and of the Lewis and Clark exploration at Portland, Oregon, in 1905, make this book a timely one, largely based as it is upon the original investigations, research and explorations of the writer.
Much of the route followed by Lewis and Clark is now followed by the Northern Pacific main line or its branches, so that the Northern Pacific's interest in this work is a natural one. TADI C nc niCTANPFQ The annexed table gives the correct IHBLC ur Uiaifinvca distances between the most important
points. The intersetions between vertical and horizontal columns will show the number of miles.
Gardiner
Mammoth Hot Springs
Golden Gate
Obsidian Cliff
Horns Geyser Basra
Gibbon Meadows
Gibbon Falls
Lower Geyser Basin
Eicelsior (Midway) Geyser . .
Upper Geyser Basin
Keppler's Cascade
West Arm Yellowstone Lake.
Yellowstone Lake Hotel
Eayden Valley
Grand Canon
100 101
117
s:
The small figures, in a few places, are the distances between the Grand Canon and the various points noted via the return road in the tour, from the canon to Norris. Adding together both large and small figures as they are found will give the total distance between such places as per the regular tour.
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TRANQ P&riPIP TnilRQ The tide of travel across the Pacific
TRANS-PACIFIC TOURS to the Orient is steadi]y growing.
The acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines and the consequent increase in trans-Pacific trade has stimulated Oriental tourist travel.
There can be no pleasanter trip for the Oriental or round-the- world traveler than to go up the lakes, travel west over the North- ern Pacific to Yellowstone Park, and then go on to Puget Sound and continue west across the Pacific.
BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY
mut" and "Tremont," which sail from Seattle, via the northern route, for Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila. These steamers rank with the "Celtic," "Arabic," etc., among Atlantic liners, are twin-screw, io,ooo-ton vessels, more than 500 feet long and attain a speed of 15 knots. They each have accommodations for 56 first-class cabin passengers and no pains or expense has been spared to make these steamers the equals, in all respects, of any boats on the Pacific ocean. These steamers are of 58 feet beam and are 43 feet deep and, with their large bilge keels, are unusually steady in rough weather. The boats are equipped in modern fashion, in every respect, and are destined to become prime favorites with all who are fortunate enough to secure passage on them.
All Northern Pacific agents in the large cities or its local agents will make berth and stateroom reservations and give infor- mation concerning sailings, or communications addressed to the General Passenger office at St. Paul, will receive prompt attention
TROUTING WATERS, YELLOWSTONE PARK. VIEW BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER FALLS AT GRAND CANON.
THE GREAT LAKES AND THE PARK
pleasure is that by way of the Great Lakes and Duluth to the park.
The fine steamship "North West," of the Northern Steamship Company, leaves Buffalo every Saturday evening during the lake tourist season — from June 15 to September 15, approximately — for Duluth, and, returning to Buffalo, leaves Duluth every Tuesday evening.
The character of this steamer is well known, it is, virtually, an ocean steamer on inland waters.
Within a year §300,000 have been expended in improving and renovating the ship and the words "floating palace," hackneyed though they are, precisely fit it. The steamer is of 8,000 horse- power, and carries passengers only — no freight.
The tour of the lakes enables one to see the beautiful lake- shore cities of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Superior and Duluth, also many points of historic interest, including particularly, Mackinac, at the junction of Lakes Huron and Michigan, and the Sault Ste. Marie. The early French and the priestly explorers of the Northwest traveled in canoes up and down the lakes and Mackinac and the "Soo" were important points on their journeys and the old chronicles — see the Jesuit Relations, Parkman, Shea, etc. — deal in detail with these places.
From Duluth the park tourist has the privilege of visiting St. Paul and Minneapolis, on the way West, without additional charge.
Those who plan to connect a tour of the park with that of the lakes, in either direction, will have no reason to regret the arrangement when it comes to carrying it out.
THE LOWER. OR GREAT FALL, YELLOWSTONE PARK
TABLE OF ELEVATIONS IN YELLOWSTONE PARK.
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS
ELECTRIC PEAK
BUNSEN PEAK
MT. EVERTS
GOLDEN GATE
MT. HOLMES
NORRIS GEYSER BASIN . . LOWER GEYSER BASIN . . MIDWAY GEYSER BASIN. UPPER GEYSER BASIN... YELLOWSTONE LAKE —
FLAT MOUNTAIN
MT. SHERIDAN
MT. LANGFORD
MT. DOANE
MT. STEVENSON ..
JONES' PASS
HAYDEN VALLEY . GRAND CANON —
MT. WASHBURN. ..
AIR-LINE DISTANCE FROM WELL-KNOWN POINT.
ELEVATION |
above sea level.!
Byroad from Gardiner, 5 miles
8 miles northwest from Mammoth Hot Springs.
4 miles south from Mammoth Hot Springs
2 miles east from Mammoth Hot Springs
4 miles south by road from Mammoth Hot Springs
6 miles west from Obsidian Cliff
^On western side of Park. SeeTlistance Table.
Southeastern part of Park
( 9 miles southeast from Lunch Station on Yellowstone I \ Lake 1
12 miles south from Lunch Station on Yellowstone Lake. ( 18 miles southeast from Hotel at Yellowstone Lake, I I on southeast shore f
16 miles southeast from Hotel at Yellowstone Lake, I
on southeast shore f
. 16 miles southeast from Hotel at Yellowstone Lake, (
I near Mt. Doane I
j In mountains on east shore Yellowstone Lake, east I I from Lake Hotel f
Between Yellowstone Lake Hotel and Grand Canon —
Northern central part of Park
7 miles northeast from Grand Canon Hotel
NAMED AFTER
6,215 ft.
11,155 9,100 7,900
About 7,300
10,300
About 7,700 A bout 7,200 About 7,200 About 7,300 7,721
9,000 10,200 10,000
10,500 10,300
9,450
7,7<Xf to 7,800 About 7,800
10,000
J Mammoth character ol phe- i
' nomena f
j Peculiar electric phenomena I
I observed there (
R. M. Bunsen
T. C. Everts
Yellow color of the walls
W. H. Holmes
Col.P. W.Norris
i
From fiat top of the mountain.
Gen. Phil. H. Sheridan
N. P. Langford, St. Paul
Lieut. G. C. Doane
Jas. Stevenson
Capt. W. A. Jones
Dr. F. V. Hayden
Grandeur of the sight
Gen. H. D. Washburn
IN GENERAL.
Park tour proper begins and ends here.
\ Northern boundary line of Park cuts the ( mountain
A celebrated chemist
t Lost and was found near here after 37 I days, nearly dead
One mile long
Director U. S. Bureau of Ethnology —
Second Superintendent of Park
Named from their locations
j One of the two largest navigated lakes in I the world at such an elevation
U. S. A
An old explorer and first Supt. of Park..
( U. S. A., commanded escort of Wash- i burn party
Of the old Hayden Survey
Engineer Corps, U. S. A
In charge Hayden's former Survey
! About 20 miles long to Tower Creek;
1,200 feet deep
i Former Surveyor-General of Montana "i and head of Washburn Party.
ALASKA EXCURSIONS
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE
SAILING DATES OF PACIFIC COASTS. S. CO.'S STEAMER "SPOKANE"
FROM
TACOMA AND SEATTLE FOR THE SEASON OF 1904.
STEAMER WILL LEAVE
TACOMA 4.00 A.M., SEATTLE 9.00 A.M., AS FOLLOWS! STEAMER "SPOKANE."
Leaved
.4 TACOMA ei SEATTLE
June 7
June 21
July 5
4 TACOMA Leave } SEATTLE
July 19
August 2
August 16
kiSEATTI'K k
June ............. 16
July .............. 2
July .............. 16
Duo Back ) SEATTLE j TACOMA
July 3O
August 13
August 27
The round-trip rate from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth or the Superiors to Sitka, including berth and meals north of Tacoma and Seattle on the excursion steamer "Spokane," will be $190.
Tickets will be limited to nine months, good going ninety days to first station en route in State of Washington.
The steamer "Spokane" will be run for the excursion travel, and the route will be arranged to give passengers an opportunity of seeing all interesting and accessible glaciers, including Glacier Bay; stops will be made at the most important ports, the trip occupying about twelve days north of Tacoma or Seattle. No local, second-class or steerage passenger will be carried.
Diagrams of Alaska steamers will be found in the hands of general and district passenger agents of the Northern Pacific, who will reserve accommodations for it» patrons. Th« above schedule mu-i be considered :i- approximate only. I .mi-i-i- -limilil roiiiinunlcute with .Northern Pacific General mid IMntrtct I'uHHenjfer Aieuiitx, or u it It A. M. Clelund, General PaoHeiiffer Atfcnt, St. I*uul, Minn., reffurdlnit nullliitcM.
The White Pass and Yukon route from Skaguay across the White Pass, opens up a new and inviting field for travel into the Klondike and Atlin regions. The rail line extends from Skaguay to While Horse and from there to Dawson Upper Yukon steamers are used, and the trip occupies less than fifty hours. Atlin is reached from Caribou. Hotels are found at all points and they are good and prices reasonable.
_ rt Kound-trip excursion tickets are on sale daily at St. Paul.Min-
»OAST neapolis or Duluth, via Northern Pacific Kailway, to Tacoma,
Portland, Seattle, Everett, Bellingham (Whatcom), Vancouver,
EXCURSIONS B. C. , or Victoria and return, at rate of $90. Tickets may r*Bd going via Northern Pacific returning same route, or via Great
Northern Railway or Soc-Pacific Route to St. Paul. Minneapolis or Duluth, or via Billings and theB.& M. B. It. It. direct or via Denver to the Missouri River. Portland tickets will be issued good to return via Huntingdon to Omaha or Kansas City, or through Sioux City to St. Paul. Round-trip excursion tickets are also on hale via Northern Pacific Railway to San Francisco, via the Shasta Route or ocean, returning the same way, or to any Missouri River terminal, or Mineola or Houston, at rate of $105.00; to St. Louis or New Orleans at $111.00; to St. Paul or Minneapolis, via the Missouri River, at $112.50. The above tickets are good for nine months, with a going limit of ninety days to first station en route in State of Washington and permit of stop-overs in both directions. • The rates shown above are subject to change.
Low excursion rates are in effect to Montana and Eastern Washington points.
Call upon or write any of the following agents for a copy of our tourist book, WONDERLAND 1901," enclosing six cents in stamps.
iy All rates and arrangements set forth in this folder are subject to change without notice further than that required by law.
For further Information in regard to the Great Northwest, details aa to rate*, route*, with maps, etc., eall on or adrireMi, your neureHt ticket agent, or any of the follow- ing representative** of the Northern 1'aclflc Railway*
BOSTON, MASS.-2OT Old South Building.
0. E. FOSTER District Passenger Agent.
BUFFALO, N. Y.— 215 Ellicott Square.
WM. G. MASON District Passenger Agent.
BUTTE, MONT.-Park and Main Streets.
W. H. MEBRIMAN General Agent.
CHICAGO, ILL.— 208 South Clark Street.
C. A. MATTHEWS General Agent Pass'r Department.
J. C. THOMPSON District Passenger Agent.
CINCINNATI, OHIO— 40 East Fourth Street.
J. J. FERRY., District Pass'r Agent D. L. ROBB, Trav. Frt. and Pass'r Agent.
DBS MOINES, IOWA— 818-319;Citizens Bank Building.
E. D. ROCKWELL District Passenger Agent.
DETROIT, MICH.-153 Jefferson Avenue.
W. H. WHITAKER District Passenger Agent.
DULUTH, MINN.-332 W. Superior Street.
T. E. BLANCHE General Agent.
HELENA, MONT.-Main and Grand Streets.
E. 8. RICHARDS Acting General Agent.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— 12 Jackson Place.
P. W. PUMHILL District Passenger Agent.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.— 316-317 Herman Building.
('HAS. O. TROTT District Passenger Agent.
MONTREAL, QUE.— Temple Building, St. James Street.
G. W, HARDISTY District Passenger Agent.
NEW YORK CITY— 319 Broadway.
W. F. MERSHON General Agent Passenger Department.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.-711 Chestnut Street.
1. M. BOBTLE District Passenger Agent.
PITTSBURG, PA.-305 Park Building.
C. E. BRISON District Passenger Agent.
PORTLAND, ORE.-255 Morrison Street.
F. O'NEILL, District Pass'r Agent E. L. HATBCRN, Traveling Pass'r Agent.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-641 Market Street.
T. K. STATELER General Agent Passenger Department.
SEATTLE, WASH.-First Avenue and Yesler Way.
I. A. NADEAO General Agent.
SPOKANE, WASH.-Riverside and Howard Streets.
J. W. HILL General Agent.
ST. LOUIS. MO.-210 Commercial Building.
P. H. NOEL District Passenger Agent.
ST. PAUL. MINN.-Fourth and Broadway.
HARRY W. SWEET, District Pass'r Agt GEO. W. MCCASKEY., District Pass'r Agt.
TACOMA. WASH.-926 Pacific Avenue.
A. TINLING General Agent.
VANCOUVER, B. C.-430 Hastings Street.
J. O. McMULLEN.v General Agent.
VICTORIA, B. O.
0. E. LANQ General Agent.
WALLACE, IDAHO—Depot.
J. G. BOYD General Agent
WINNIPEG. MAN.
H. SWINPOBD General Agent.
PORTLAND, ORE.
A. D. CHARLTON Assistant General Passenger Agent.
J. M. HANNAFORD,
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT,
A. M. CLELAND, GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT,
3T. RAUL, MINN. 22
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