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Not much can hold onto the steepest pitches of walls inside the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, but somehow these conifers have managed to do so. How much longer they'll remain standing, though, is tough to say.
"Cascade Corner" in Yellowstone National Park is aptly named, what with its many waterfalls and cascades of the Bechler River. According to park historian Lee Whittlesey in "Yellowstone Place Names," the region was named by explorer W.C.
You definitely have to put some effort in to reach it, but Colonnade Falls on the Bechler River is definitely worth that effort!
The two falls were named in 1885, and while there's no record as to why, speculation by Yellowstone National Park historian Lee Whittlesey is that "it probably referred either to the nearby columnar basalt layers or to the fact that there were two waterfalls. A colonnade is a series or row of columns placed at regular intervals."
The upper fall measures 35 feet top to bottom, while the lower falls is 67 feet tall.
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