Osprey Falls is a

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

on the

Gardner River The Gardner River (also known as the Gardiner River) is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately long, in northwestern Wyoming and south central Montana in the United States. The entire river is located within Yellowstone National P ...

in northwestern

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in the

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. 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 During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. st ...

, described the falls:

Notes

{{Wyoming Waterfalls of Wyoming Waterfalls of Yellowstone National Park Tourist attractions in Park County, Wyoming

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