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Artist Paintpots Trail

Splattering Mud Pots

Interpretive Trail on Gibbon River, Geyser Creek in Yellowstone NP, Rocky Mountains near Canyon Village, WY

The Artist Paintpots Trail is a 1.1 mile long trail featuring some of Yellowstone’s best mud pots. The mud pots at Artist Paintpots tend to be particularly gooey and make all sorts of unique sounds and forms as the gas bubbles rise up to the surface.

Other places to see mud pots are the Fountain Paint Pots Trail and the Mud Volcano Trail.

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Length

¾mi

Surface

Dirt

Allows ATVs

No

Allows Bikes

No

Allows Hiking

Yes

Allows Horses

No

Allows Nordic Skiing

No

Artists Paintpots

Thermal Group in Yellowstone NP, Rocky Mountains near Canyon Village, WY

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Interpretive Trail

Waterbodies

Ecology

South Central Rockies Forests

Yellowstone Plateau