A View Discovered On A Climb-Down To The Gardiner River.
…The Buildings Low in the Yellowstone River Valley Ahead, Are Gardiner, MT.
…..Notice The Brilliant Red Lichen On Rock At Left and Small Spots Red On Rock At Right.

…. “We exit from [Yellowstone National Park] the park at Gardiner, …. “

Approach to Gardiner, MT. Here I decide to climb down to and photograph the Gardiner River. I did this probably because I had missed getting good photos for Rock Creek back before Red Lodge.
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….As shown in my Rand-McNally, US-89 leaves YNP & Wyoming, going ~North along the Gardner River to Gardner, MT, where both road & river meet the Yellowstone River.
..A) The Yellowstone River has its origin in Lake Yellowstone & Yellowstone Falls: REMINDER => Already Mentioned In The Fourth Previous Photo Wikipedia’s YNP Has 33 Photos & 5 Maps: These Include 2 Photos of Yellowstone Falls, & One Photo of Lake Yellowstone: The Maps Show how the lake’s water flows over the falls, and starts the Yellowstone River.
..A) Cont: The lake, falls, and river discussed A) above, are a consequence of Yellowstone Caldera which created this terrain. You may want to read more about the Yellowstone Caldera at end of Wikipedia Excerpt of Second Previous Photo.
..B) The Gardiner River originates in Northwestern YNP, and probably includes water from the Mammoth Hot Springs.
….The road down from YNP was very twisty, and the steepest I have yet encountered! Apparently. this is a very, very, old military horse & wagon road, which was used to establish the original Fort Yellowstone. Since the fort was originally only for military patrol of what was then a very remote, inaccessible area, road costs were kept down by making it steep! You must have good brakes!

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(Photo = 107-0723 ...... ZMM Page = 127 ...... WayPt = 181`|w|' 5355ft)