Such trees Tower-Roosevelt to Northeast Entrance Lamar Valley, accessible all year, is winter range for elk and bison. Tower-Roosevelt to Canyon Tower Fall, tumbling 132 feet, was named for the adjacent volcanic pinnacles. Tower Creek flows into the Yellowstone River. South from Tower Fall, as you drive up Mount Washburn, look east, downslope, into prime grizzly bear country on Antelope Creek. This area is closed to human travel, to offer the bears refuge.
Meadows produce a profusion of wildflowers during the brief summer.
From the Washburn Hot Springs Overlook south of the pass, you can see the Yellowstone caldera. You can see the Teton Range on clear days, on the right beyond the Red Mountains. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River plunges 1,000 feet. The canyon's colors were created by hot water acting on volcanic rock. It was not these colors, but the river's yellow banks at its distant confluence with the Missouri River that occasioned the Minnetaree Indian name that French trappers translated as roche jaune , yellow stone.