Mud Geysers
Mud Geysers is a thermal feature on the Gallatin County side of Yellowstone, a short walk in from Grand Loop Road, marked hot on the record without a measured temperature. The Park Service holds the land and lets people in. West Yellowstone lies about sixteen miles off. With no reading on file, there is nothing here to call soakable.
Three tenths of a mile separates the Grand Loop Road from this spot, which sits at close to seventy-nine hundred feet. Snowfall runs past twelve feet in an average year, with an annual mean of thirty-four and middling precipitation. The land is designated national park.
No best months are on record. With the road close, the season is whatever the park keeps open, so ask. Tower Fall Campground, the one campground on record, sits about nineteen miles away. No temperature means no assumption of safety; treat the ground and water as hot. Free, by the record, and open.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Mud Geysers.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 68 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 63% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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Overview Tower Fall Campground—elevation 6,600 feet (2012 m)—is on the north side of the steep, winding, road to Dunraven Pass. The campground is near the Tower General Store and Tower Fall. The Lamar Valley, with spectacular wildlife viewing opportunities, is nearby as are several Day Hikes in the Tower and Northeast Area. Roosevelt Lodge, a short drive from the campground, offers dining and horseback riding. For reservations at the campgrounds managed by Yellowstone National Park Lodges (F...
Mud Geysers sits at 7,870 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 31% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Mud Geysers is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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