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Yellowstone Natural Bridge

50ft-tall Rhyolite Arch

Natural Bridge on Bridge Creek in Yellowstone NP, Rocky Mountains near Lake, WY

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Yellowstone Natural Bridge is a natural arch in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The arch is at an elevation of 7,983 feet (2,433 m) and can be reached by hiking a little more than a mile from the Bridge Bay marina parking lot. The arch is 51 feet (16 m) tall and was created as water eroded through the surrounding ryholite rock.

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Natural bridge of rhyolite, Bridge Creek, northwest side of Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. ca. 1890. Joseph Paxson Iddings (USGS) photograph above.

Vertical plates of rhyolite on the face of a natural bridge on the northwest side of Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. ca. 1890. Plate 49, U.S. Geological Survey Monograph 32, part 2. Joseph Paxson Iddings (USGS) photograph above.