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Artist Point Overlook

Popular and Spectacular 360° View of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Observation Point on Yellowstone River on Artist Point Overlook Trail in Yellowstone NP, Rocky Mountains near Canyon Village, WY

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Artist Point is perhaps the most popular and most photographed views of Lower Falls and the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone – and for good reason. The overlook is surrounded by massive rhyolite cliffs that the Yellowstone River has carved for thousands of years. This distant roar of the Lower Falls demonstrates this process continuing today.

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Artist Point is a cliff on the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone due west of Yellowstone Falls on the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. The 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.

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