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Kepler Cascades

Yellowstone National Park / Old Faithful, Wyoming, USA

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The Kepler Cascades was probably the easiest waterfall of this magnitude that we were able to visit within Yellowstone National Park.

The lookout platform was pretty much right next to the spacious parking lot (see directions below).

Kepler_Cascades_017_08112017 - Kepler Cascades
Kepler Cascades

And it was from that lookout platform that we were able to witness the Firehole River drop in a series of successive cascades and waterfalls over a cumulative height of about 100-150ft (as shown above).

According to The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and Their Discovery, this waterfall was named in 1881 by the park superintendent P.W. Norris.

He named it after Kepler Hoyt, the son of the Governor of the Wyoming Territory John Hoyt, who toured the park that year.

Although that book showed a picture of the falls from the base of the largest of the drops you see pictured above, there was no sanctioned way down the steep cliffs to get there.

Kepler_Cascades_001_08112017 - The lookout for the Kepler Cascades was quite literally right next to its parking lot
The lookout for the Kepler Cascades was quite literally right next to its parking lot

This waterfall was probably the nearest one to the delightful Upper Geyser Basin, which included the Old Faithful Geyser and several other predictable geysers as well as colorful thermal pools and springs.

And yet despite its close proximity to the very busy Old Faithful area, the falls curiously didn’t have nearly as much fanfare.

I’m guessing it was precisely due to the haste of most visitors to get to the Upper Geyser Basin at the expense of overlooking the Kepler Cascades.

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The Kepler Cascades reside in Yellowstone National Park near West Yellowstone in Park County, Wyoming. They are administered by the National Park Service. For information or inquiries about the park as well as current conditions, visit the National Park Service website.

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