Artist Point
Artist Point [1] Lookout Point | |
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Cliff | |
View from Artist Point | |
Coordinates: 44°43′16″N 110°28′46″W / 44.72111°N 110.47944°W / 44.72111; -110.47944 | |
Location | Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming, United States |
Elevation | 2,329 m (7,641 ft) |
Artist Point is an overlook point on the edge of a cliff[2] on the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The point is located east-northeast of Yellowstone Falls on the Yellowstone River. Artist Point was originally named in 1883 by Frank Jay Haynes who improperly believed that the point was the place at which painter Thomas Moran sketched his 1872 depictions of the falls. Later work determined that the sketches were made from the north rim, but the name Artist Point stuck.[3]
Notes
- ^ "Artist Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock)"Feature Class Definitions". Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
- ^ Whittlesey, Lee H. (2006). Yellowstone Place Names. Gardiner, MT: Wonderland Publishing Company. p. 40. ISBN 1-59971-716-6.
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Yellowstone National Park - Canyon
Geography, historic structures and other attractions in the Canyon area
- Canyon Hotel
- Chittenden Memorial Bridge
- Uncle Tom's Trail
- Artist Point
- Dunraven Pass
- Dunraven Peak
- Hedges Peak
- Inspiration Point
- Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
- Silver Cord Cascade
- Whistler Geyser
- Yellowstone Caldera
- Yellowstone Falls
- Yellowstone River
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