Yellowstone Old Faithful Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour
Overview
Witness the power of Old Faithful and explore the surrounding geyser basin with this self-guided walking tour! As one of the most densely-packed geyser regions in the park, there’s no shortage of explosive wonders on display here. Watch huge geysers like Old Faithful, Castle Geyser, and Grand Geyser erupt. Stroll past smaller, bubbling pools. Find out how geysers form and work, and uncover the hidden systems underlying the whole basin. This walking tour makes for the perfect addition to any Yellowstone visit!
After booking, you can check your email before downloading the Tour Guide App by Action, enter your unique password, and access your tour. The preceding steps require good internet/wifi access. Simply follow the audio instructions and the route from there.
This is not an entrance ticket. Check opening hours before your visit.
No expiration — The tour comes with lifetime validity!
After booking, you can check your email before downloading the Tour Guide App by Action, enter your unique password, and access your tour. The preceding steps require good internet/wifi access. Simply follow the audio instructions and the route from there.
This is not an entrance ticket. Check opening hours before your visit.
No expiration — The tour comes with lifetime validity!
Inclusions
- App on your phone: A link to download the Tour Guide App by Action and Password for your tours.
- Flexible schedule: Use any day, any time. Travel over multiple days or on next trip. Never expires.
- Easy to use: Stories play automatically by GPS. Hands-free. Get HELP all day: Call, Chat, or Email.
- Offline use: No cell signal or wifi required. Offline GPS Map & route. Stop-to-stop direction.
- Don’t miss a thing: Full itinerary, travel tips, professionally narrated, videos, text, hidden gems.
What to expect
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Old Faithful - Observation Deck, 85PFF55C+RM, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
We’re walking along the Old Faithful Observation Deck. But the benches and boardwalk here are just part of the 14 miles of boardwalk that snake through this part of Yellowstone.
Thousands of visitors trek through this park every year.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Firehole River, Center Loop Road, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
The water might look chilly, but don’t let your eyes deceive you! This is what’s called a “thermal river, ” which means geothermal features empty into it and warm the waters. This water’s temperature can hit 86 degrees!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Observation Point Trailhead, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
You’ll see a sign for Observation Point Trail. If you’d like an elevated view of Old Faithful erupting, this path will take you to the perfect spot for it. It’s an uphill trek of about a mile out and back, and should take around 30 minutes.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Anemone Geysers, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
It gets its name from geologist Arnold Hague, who thought the vents looked like the petals of the anemone flower.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Beehive Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
It looks like a big innocuous beehive just sitting on the ground. That is, until it sends boiling water shooting 100 feet into the air!
The Beehive spews water for 5 minutes every 10 to 20 hours.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Marmot Cave Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
This area is called “Marmot Cave Geyser.” A yellow-bellied marmot used to live in that little cave, but it moved out years ago. I can only assume spewing water heated by magma isn’t ideal for marmot dens!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Lion Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Off to our left, do see a lion, a lioness, and two cubs. Okay you got me—they’re not real lions. They’re cone geysers! To make things more confusing, they’re not actually named because they look like lions at all!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Sawmill Geyser, Wyoming 82190, USA
It looks a lot like a bluish hot spring, but it erupts! And when it does, it sounds like a whirring sawmill. It’s connected underground to a whole complex of thermal features, which makes its eruptions very hard to predict.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Grand Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Off to your right is a geyser that puts on quite a show. It’s called “Grand Geyser, ” and it’s the single most powerful predictable geyser in the world! It’s a fountain-type, so no cones to see—just a pool. And if you think Old Faithful has impressive eruptions, just wait until you see one of these.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Beauty Pool, Wyoming 82190, USA
On our right is a hydrothermal feature so beautiful people named it “Beauty Pool”! It’s that blue-green hot spring with a thick ring of orange heat-loving microbes—known as thermophiles—around it.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Chromatic Pool, Wyoming 82190, USA
This is Beauty Pool’s sister, Chromatic Pool. It’s a smaller hot spring at only 30 feet in diameter, but the colors are still so vivid! This pool is around 133.1 degrees—too hot for a shower, too cold for a cup of coffee.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Giant Geyser, Wyoming 82190, USA
Giant’s cone is geyserite or sinter, and it’s about 12-feet tall. Some say it even looks a bit like the Coliseum in Rome! This is one of the tallest geysers in Yellowstone, but it’s far from the only geyser in this cluster.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Grotto Geyser, Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Dead ahead is Grotto Geyser. This was almost the site of disaster during the 1870 expedition!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
The Morning Glory Pool gets its name thanks to the passing resemblance to morning glory flowers. Green ones like it hot. Yellow ones like it pretty hot. Orange like it warm. And red like it kinda warm.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Daisy Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Daisy Geyser is one of Yellowstone’s most predictable geysers. It erupts every 2 to 4 hours for about 4 minutes. And this one is unique because its fountain streams out at an angle to the ground!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Crested Pool, Wyoming 82190, USA
Crested Pool is 42 feet deep and has an average temperature of 191 degrees! That’s just about as hot as your hottest cup of coffee.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Castle Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Castle Geyser stands out thanks to the massive calcified cone that surrounds it. This one erupts every 10 to 12 hours. Eruptions last about 20 minutes, and the spray can reach 90 feet high. After the main eruption ends, steam hisses out of Castle Geyser for around 35 minutes.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Old Faithful Inn, Old Faithful GPS Coord: 44.459923, -110.831213, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
This is no ordinary inn. The building’s designer, Robert Reamer, wanted it to be part of the park. So he used rhyolite for the inn’s foundation. Rhyolite is formed in Yellowstone’s caldera! And for the inn’s walls, he used local lodgepole pine trees!
Duration: 5 minutes
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Old Faithful - Observation Deck, 85PFF55C+RM, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
We’re walking along the Old Faithful Observation Deck. But the benches and boardwalk here are just part of the 14 miles of boardwalk that snake through this part of Yellowstone.
Thousands of visitors trek through this park every year.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Firehole River, Center Loop Road, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
The water might look chilly, but don’t let your eyes deceive you! This is what’s called a “thermal river, ” which means geothermal features empty into it and warm the waters. This water’s temperature can hit 86 degrees!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Observation Point Trailhead, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
You’ll see a sign for Observation Point Trail. If you’d like an elevated view of Old Faithful erupting, this path will take you to the perfect spot for it. It’s an uphill trek of about a mile out and back, and should take around 30 minutes.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Anemone Geysers, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
It gets its name from geologist Arnold Hague, who thought the vents looked like the petals of the anemone flower.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Beehive Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
It looks like a big innocuous beehive just sitting on the ground. That is, until it sends boiling water shooting 100 feet into the air!
The Beehive spews water for 5 minutes every 10 to 20 hours.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Marmot Cave Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA
This area is called “Marmot Cave Geyser.” A yellow-bellied marmot used to live in that little cave, but it moved out years ago. I can only assume spewing water heated by magma isn’t ideal for marmot dens!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Lion Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Off to our left, do see a lion, a lioness, and two cubs. Okay you got me—they’re not real lions. They’re cone geysers! To make things more confusing, they’re not actually named because they look like lions at all!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Sawmill Geyser, Wyoming 82190, USA
It looks a lot like a bluish hot spring, but it erupts! And when it does, it sounds like a whirring sawmill. It’s connected underground to a whole complex of thermal features, which makes its eruptions very hard to predict.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Grand Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Off to your right is a geyser that puts on quite a show. It’s called “Grand Geyser, ” and it’s the single most powerful predictable geyser in the world! It’s a fountain-type, so no cones to see—just a pool. And if you think Old Faithful has impressive eruptions, just wait until you see one of these.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Beauty Pool, Wyoming 82190, USA
On our right is a hydrothermal feature so beautiful people named it “Beauty Pool”! It’s that blue-green hot spring with a thick ring of orange heat-loving microbes—known as thermophiles—around it.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Chromatic Pool, Wyoming 82190, USA
This is Beauty Pool’s sister, Chromatic Pool. It’s a smaller hot spring at only 30 feet in diameter, but the colors are still so vivid! This pool is around 133.1 degrees—too hot for a shower, too cold for a cup of coffee.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Giant Geyser, Wyoming 82190, USA
Giant’s cone is geyserite or sinter, and it’s about 12-feet tall. Some say it even looks a bit like the Coliseum in Rome! This is one of the tallest geysers in Yellowstone, but it’s far from the only geyser in this cluster.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Grotto Geyser, Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Dead ahead is Grotto Geyser. This was almost the site of disaster during the 1870 expedition!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
The Morning Glory Pool gets its name thanks to the passing resemblance to morning glory flowers. Green ones like it hot. Yellow ones like it pretty hot. Orange like it warm. And red like it kinda warm.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Daisy Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Daisy Geyser is one of Yellowstone’s most predictable geysers. It erupts every 2 to 4 hours for about 4 minutes. And this one is unique because its fountain streams out at an angle to the ground!
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Crested Pool, Wyoming 82190, USA
Crested Pool is 42 feet deep and has an average temperature of 191 degrees! That’s just about as hot as your hottest cup of coffee.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Castle Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Castle Geyser stands out thanks to the massive calcified cone that surrounds it. This one erupts every 10 to 12 hours. Eruptions last about 20 minutes, and the spray can reach 90 feet high. After the main eruption ends, steam hisses out of Castle Geyser for around 35 minutes.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Old Faithful Inn, Old Faithful GPS Coord: 44.459923, -110.831213, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
This is no ordinary inn. The building’s designer, Robert Reamer, wanted it to be part of the park. So he used rhyolite for the inn’s foundation. Rhyolite is formed in Yellowstone’s caldera! And for the inn’s walls, he used local lodgepole pine trees!
Duration: 5 minutes
Additional information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- Most travelers can participate
- How it works: Once you book a tour, you’ll get a text/email with instructions. Download the app (while in good wifi/signal) and use your unique password to access your tours. To begin touring, go to the Starting Point and launch the app. The audio starts automatically. Stick to the tour route & speed limit for the best experience. Please note that no one will meet you at the starting point.
- Good value: Purchase one tour per person. If you are a couple and prefer to share, purchase one tour and remember to bring headphones you can split.
- Flexible Schedule: Once the app/tour is on your phone, you can use it any day and at any time. You can use it over multiple days. And, also use it on your next trip here. This tour never expires.
- Preview the tour: You can use it before the trip at home (highly recommended), use it during the trip, and use it after you come back.
- Don't miss a thing: You will get everything with the app - a complete itinerary, travel tips, professionally narrated audio stories, story script, images, videos, deep dives, hidden gems, exciting locations, recommendations for hikes, adventure, activities, treks, and stop-by-stop direction.
- Private tour: You can use it in your car or rental car. No worries about groups or crowds. Start the tour app on your phone. And it will direct you step by step. You can stop for as many breaks as you like. Take a break for Instagram photos, and take a break for lunch/snacks. Go on a hike. The tour will wait for you and start when you start again. You can even do the tour over multiple days. Go at your own pace.
- Easy to use: The stories play themselves as soon as the GPS is activated. It requires no use of your hands at all. You can get HELP by calling, chatting, or emailing any time of the day.
- Offline: There is no need for a cell signal or Wi-Fi while touring. App’s GPS map works offline.
- Expiration/go again: The tour will last for the rest of your life on your phone. It is available for use on any day of your next trip.
- Use pictures for a photo book: Create a photo book using clean (no crowd) app images of each spot to make a memorable trip. All the photos and the correct sequence is ready in the app for you to use.
- Social media: Share clean (no crowd) images with friends/family.
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Ticket delivery
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
Cancellation
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.