As she wound her way through the Absaroka Range and headed toward Yellowstone Lake and the geyser basin beyond, she had to fight back tears. “I hadn’t seen that view in basically 50 years,” she said. ...

Sitting in the heart of Yellowstone's West Thumb area is Yellowstone Lake, the park's largest body of water and the largest high-elevation lake above 7,000 feet in North America. The lake is 20 ...