. Grand tour guide to the Yellowstone National Park : a manual for tourists, being a description of the Mammoth hot springs, the geyser basins, the cataracts, the cañons, and other features of the new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . arkably good condition, considering the smallamount annually appropriated by Congress for the mainte-nance of the Park, have been laid out with a view to renderingit practicable to visit all the points of especial in
. Grand tour guide to the Yellowstone National Park : a manual for tourists, being a description of the Mammoth hot springs, the geyser basins, the cataracts, the cañons, and other features of the new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . arkably good condition, considering the smallamount annually appropriated by Congress for the mainte-nance of the Park, have been laid out with a view to renderingit practicable to visit all the points of especial interest withouttraversing the same road twice. While this desirable end hasnot yet been fully attained, its accomplishment is proceedingrapidly. The summer of 1886, for example, will witness thecompletion of a direct road from the Great Falls and GrandCanon of the Yellowstone to the Norris Geyser Basin, whichwill save upward of forty miles of doubling, and allow alonger time than heretofore at places of transcendent starting-point for the grand tour is Mammoth HotSprings. While stop-over privileges are granted at all point^swhere hotel accommodations are provided, and opportunity isafforded for special excursions to such objects of interest ascan not conveniently be embraced within the regular tour,there is nothing to be gained, but, on the contrary, much to be. Lake of the Woods and Obsidian Cliff*.38 GRAND TOUR OP THR PARR. 80 lost, by any material deviation from the route laid down inthese pages. That route has many advantages, not the leastof them consisting in the fact that the wonders of the Parkare visited in such sequence that the interest, astonishmentand delight of the traveler increase with each succeeding stageof the tour, until the crowning glory of the efttire region isreached in the Grand Canon of the Yellowstone. Golden Gate and Kingmans Pass.—After leavingMammoth Hot Springs, the road, which formerly crossedTerrace Mountain, and was as difficult
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