Mystic Falls, Firehole Basin Wyoming

Labor Day Weekend 2008
29 August, 2008.

My family, two adults, four children, did a wonderful hike in Yellowstone National Park. We stayed at the Old Faithful Inn. From the Inn, you can get up out of bed,
put on your shoes, and head out for an 8 mile round-trip. Down the paved geyser
basin paths, on out off the trail to Morning Glory pool. From there, you just keep heading north-west. We encountered several small thermal features on the
short trail from the end of the pavement at Morning Glory. Very pretty, and easy to forget you are so close to the Inn and the roadway. After crossing the road, you go through Biscuit Basin. At the back end of the board walk, you exit off onto the path
that takes you to Mystic Falls. It is about a mile to the falls. Near the falls the trail splits. The lower branch approaches the falls near the base. The other, climbs to the top of the falls. To the falls is 4 miles (some maps might say less). The elevation gain is less than a 1000 feet, going up on the trail that will get you near the top of the falls. It was a great day hike. My youngest was 7 the first time we did this, and he handled it very well.