Chocolate Pots

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming · United States of America

Chocolate Pots, United States of America
Photo: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to September
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A cluster of small hot springs beside the Gibbon River, coated in iron-rich brown mineral deposits that give them a chocolate hue. The distinctive colouring comes from thriving heat-loving microbes.

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