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INCREDIBLE JOURNEY

When the water eventually regains the surface as a geyser or a hot spring, some of it flashes into steam or evaporates, some of it may flow as runoff and enter a river or stream, or some of it may be swallowed back into the earth.

Eruption	Runoff	Return
Crater Hills Geyser	Iron Spring Creek	Old Faithful's Vent

The water's roundtrip takes hundreds or even thousands of years to complete. Think back to a historical highlight of the United States: the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Pearl Harbor. . .snow or rain that fell in Yellowstone during these defining events is somewhere en route on its long journey today!

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