Osprey Falls is a
waterfall on the
Gardner River in northwestern
Yellowstone National Park in the
United States. Osprey Falls has a drop of approximately . The falls are located within Sheepeater Canyon and are reachable via the Osprey Falls trail.
History
Members of the
Hague Survey named the waterfall in 1885 for the osprey (
Pandion haliaetus
The osprey (''Pandion haliaetus''), , also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a Diurnality, diurnal, piscivore, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor reaching more than in length and across the ...
) that frequents Yellowstone Park.
In 1886, in his ''Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback'',
George Wood Wingate
George Wood Wingate (July 1, 1840 – March 22, 1928) was an American lawyer and organizer of rifle practice. During the Civil War he served in a New York regiment, and later supervised the construction of elevated railways in Brooklyn. In 18 ...
, a former officer in the
Union Army, described the falls:
See also
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Waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park contains at least 45 named waterfalls and cascades, and hundreds more unnamed, even undiscovered waterfalls over high. The highest plunge type waterfall in the park is the lower Falls of Yellowstone Falls at . The h ...
Notes
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Waterfalls of Wyoming
Waterfalls of Yellowstone National Park
Tourist attractions in Park County, Wyoming