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Ogden Section Page 711 Points of Interest
Idaho Falls, Ashton and Yellowstone, and camps. This loop road also reaches the gey-
those entering at Yellowstone, making the sers, the canyon, the lake and the various
complete loop of the park, may double back other principal spectacles of the Yellowstone.
to Yellowstone and follow the famous West These roads have been built by the War De-
Gallatin Canyon into Montana. People going partment under appropriations granted from
west on the Lincoln Highway, or any of the time to time by Congress over a long period
several
trails south of the Yellowstone Trail, will no of years and amounting in all to no
doubt want to take the Cody entrance up the million dollars. Up to August 1, 1915,
famous Shoshone Canyon to the eastern en- motors were permitted to enter the Yellow-
At that time private motors were
al-
trance of the park and over Sylvan Pass, stone.
lowed to come in and traverse the park roads
joining “the loop” just north of Lake Yel- of the day.
lowstone. There are some wonderful scenes in one direction at stated hours
on this road, especially Sylvan Pass and With the passing of the horse-drawn stages
Shoshone Canyon. Shoshone Canyon rivals in 1917, and the substitution of motor stages,
Yellowstone Canyon, with the water coming travel restrictions have been so greatly modi-
find himself
al-
will
over the giant dam and dropping 326 feet be- fied that the motorist in any section of the
low. The road from Cheyenne to Cody has most as free there as
repaired, and should easily be United States.
been recently The extraordinary hot water manifestations,
made in three or four days. geysers, the hot springs and
The roads from all of the entrances lead including the volcanoes, paint pots, and
by way of more or less scenically beautiful formations, mud
country to the central loop road of a hundred all the rest, while appearing in various widely
princi-
are
and forty miles, upon which are located the separated sections of the park,
pally found grouped in three geyser basins in
four great hotels and five permanent public

Golden Gate Canyon, Yellowstone.