Fountain Paint Pot
A short boardwalk in Lower Geyser Basin where you can see hot springs, geysers, steam vents and bubbling mud pots, four kinds of geothermal activity in one stop.
The boardwalk loop is about 0.8 km and takes about 30 minutes. The Paint Pot is a bubbling field of pinkish-white mud whose appearance changes with seasonal rainfall. Next to it, Clepsydra Geyser is almost always spouting. Along the one-way Firehole Lake Drive nearby, you can see Great Fountain Geyser and White Dome Geyser. It is about a 25-minute drive north of Old Faithful, making it a good stop on the way to Grand Prismatic Spring.
Opening hours
Open all day (winter access by snowcat only)
Nearby sights
- Grand Prismatic Spring
- Fairy Falls Trail & Grand Prismatic Overlook
- Upper Geyser Basin & Morning Glory Pool
- Old Faithful
- Old Faithful Inn
- Firehole Canyon Drive & Firehole Falls
- Gibbon Falls
- Lone Star Geyser