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FISHING BRIDGE
Visitor Center
Museum
FACILITIES
Canyon
Fishing Bridge
Grant
Madison
Mammoth
Norris
Old Faithful
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Tower
West Thumb
WILDLIFE
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Belgrade, MT
Bozeman, MT
Gardiner, MT
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Red Lodge, MT
Virginia
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Yellowstone, MT
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Yellowstone
National Park
Fishing
Bridge
Fishing Bridge crowns the northern tip of
Yellowstone Lake, the country’s largest high-elevation lake
at a little more than 7,700 feet.
Fishing Bridge gains its name from a
1902 bridge that once served as Yellowstone’s most popular angling
location. During Yellowstone’s early history crowds of fishermen would
inundate this small fishing hole, which was popular for cutthroat trout.
Fishing is now limited to “catch and release” recreation.
A National
Historic Landmark building that is now a prototype for many NPS visitor
facilities across the country
houses the area's visitor center
and
a bird
museum.
Camping at Fishing Bridge
is limited to RV-camping for hard-sided
vehicles. Bear activity in the area of the lake
makes tent-camping impractical.
Two hotels
are located at nearby Lake Village, including the Lake
Yellowstone Hotel, erected by Pacific Railroad in 1891. The ornate
Colonial architecture, which was designed by architect Robert C. Reamer
(known for his design of the inn at Old Faithful), is evidence of
Yellowstone’s increasing popularity through the years: In 1903 Reamer
was hired to transform the original, rudimentary railroad structure into
a destination hotel more befitting Yellowstone’s early 20th century
popularity. The hotel has received several subsequent upgrades and is
still one of the park’s more popular hotel destinations.
The area surrounding Fishing Bridge is, like many parts of
Yellowstone, a jumble of historic and natural wonders.
It also is the site of one of Yellowstone’s most recent volcanic
eruptions some 600,000 years ago.
There are a number of trails and
natural attractions in the area: Natural Bridge, an outcropping of
rhyolite lava that was carved by erosion thousands of years ago can be
reached by trail from Bridge Bay. A list of other trails and geologic
sites is available at the Fishing Bridge visitor center.
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