Ridley's Department Store

Once the largest retail establishment in the world, Ridley's was originally located in this building, which has been subdivided into a number of individual stores.

Information provided by the Lower East Side Business Improvement District.

Steamboat Geyser

The world's tallest active geyser, Steamboat can erupt to more than 300 feet (90m), showering viewers with its mineral-rich waters. For hours following its rare 3 to 40 minute major eruptions, Steamboat thunders with powerful jets of steam.

The magnitude ...

Roosevelt Arch

The first major entrance for Yellowstone was at the north boundary. Before 1903, trains would bring visitors to Cinnabar, Montana, which was a few miles northwest of Gardiner, Montana, and people would climb onto horse-drawn coaches there to enter the ...

Yellowstone National Park Wildlife: Wolves

Wolves ranged widely throughout North America in pre-Columbian times. Worldwide, all wolves, except the red wolf (Canis rufus) of the southeastern United States, are the same species (Canis lupus).

Wolves are highly social animals and live in packs. In Yellowstone, packs ...

Roaring Mountain

Roaring Mountain is a mountainside of steaming fumaroles (steam vents) located east of the Twin Lakes and north of the Norris Geyser Basin on the Grand Loop Road.

Visitors during the late 1800s and early 1900s said that this mountainside used ...

Artists' Paintpots

Artist Paint Pots is a small but lovely thermal area 3.8 miles south of Norris Junction. A one-mile round trip trail takes visitors to colorful hot springs, two large mudpots, and through a section of forest burned in 1988.

There ...

Tower Fall

Tower Fall is the most recognizable natural feature in the Tower-Roosevelt area. The 132-foot drop of Tower Creek, framed by eroded volcanic pinnacles has been documented by park visitors from the earliest trips of Europeans into the Yellowstone region.

Its ...

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Marine Terminal

This building, constructed in 1902 at the southern end of Commendencia Wharf, served as the headquarters of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's Gulf Coast shipping operations.

Designed by the railroad company, the building's construction contract was awarded local builder A.V. ...

NAS Pensacola Parade Ground

This parade ground is the location for the graduation ceremonies for the Aviation Officer's Candidate School.

The ceremony includes marching units, a band, and an occasional fly-over by Naval aircraft.

The frequency of the graduation ceremonies depends on their the number of ...

NAS Pensacola Officer's Housing

In the early 1930s, the Naval Air Station began expanding. The town of Warrington, which was located just west of the base, was moved to the north side of Bayou Grande.

In 1934, 840 bodies were moved from the Warrington Cemetery ...