Lone Star Geyser is a cone type geyser located in the Lone Star Geyser Basin of

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. The basin is a backcountry geyser basin located southeast of

Old Faithful Geyser Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. It is a highly predictable geothermal ...

and the

Upper Geyser Basin The geothermal areas of Yellowstone include several geyser basins in Yellowstone National Park as well as other geothermal features such as hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles. The number of thermal features in Yellowstone is estimated at 10,00 ...

. The geyser is reached via an old service road open to hikers and biking with the trailhead near Kepler Cascades on the Grand Loop Road. Lone Star erupts about every 3 hours and lasts about 30 minutes and reaches a heights of .

History

Aubrey L. Haines, the Yellowstone park historian from 1960 to 1969, relates three stories as to how this geyser was named: * In 1882, two

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surveyors working in the

region came upon the geyser and assumed because of its remote location that they were the first to discover it. They named it ''Lone Star Geyser'' in their notes. * In 1879, Colonel W. D. Pickett and J.M.V. Cochran, two hunters who had camped near Old Faithful, referred to the geyser as ''Lone Star'' during a discussion they had with Henry Bird Calfee, a noted Yellowstone photographer, during a later part of their hunting trip. * The

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Geological Survey of 1872 named this geyser Solitary Geyser but that name was later given to another geyser northeast of Old Faithful.

References

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