Bath Lake

This Drawing Appeared in Yellowstone Illustrated with a Caption that Read:
Bathing Pool at Mammoth - Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

At the bottom of a short but very steep hill lies Bath Lake, named by some of the local residents in the 1880s. Through the years, this "lake" has been empty as often as full. Though soldiers in the late 1880s once bathed in this pool, we now know that such activity destroys fragile formations and may cause dramatic changes in the behavior of thermal features. Bathing in any of Yellowstone's thermal features is unsafe and unlawful.

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