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Heart Lake el. 7,461 feet (2,274 m) is a large backcountry lake, nestled at the base of Mount Sheridan in Yellowstone National Park. Heart Lake is in the Snake River drainage and is drained by the Heart River.

Heart Lake
Heart Lake, 1962
Heart Lake
Heart Lake
LocationYellowstone National Park, Teton County, Wyoming, US
Coordinates44°16′04″N 110°29′20″W[1]
Primary outflowsHeart River
Surface elevation7,461 feet (2,274 m)[1]

History


Heart Lake was apparently named sometime prior to 1871 for a local 1840s hunter, Hart Hunney, a fact that was later verified by Hiram Chittenden. In 1871, Captain John W. Barlow thought the name was Heart Lake because of it shape and the name became its official name. During the Arnold Hague Geologic Surveys, Chittenden petitioned Hague to change the name back to Hart, but Hague thought that Heart Lake was named because of the lake's shape and refused to change it.[2] In 1870 a member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition, the solitary explorer Truman C. Everts, who had become separated from the rest of his party, probably camped on the shores of Heart Lake and named it Bessie Lake after his daughter.[3]


Heart Lake Geyser Basin


The Heart Lake Geyser Basin begins a couple miles from the lake and descends along Witch Creek to the lakeshore. Five groups of hydrothermal features comprise the basin, and all of them contain geysers, although some are dormant.[4]


Angling Heart Lake


Heart Lake holds Yellowstone cutthroat trout, lake trout, and mountain whitefish. Lake Trout were introduced in the 1890s. Angling is restricted to fly fishing or artificial lures. [5] All cutthroat trout and whitefish must be released. There is no limit on the number of lake trout harvested. The park record lake trout, 42 pounds (19 kg) was caught in Heart Lake.[6]

Heart Lake is 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from the south entrance road at Lewis Lake via the Heart Lake trail. Heart Lake can also be reached via the Trail Creek trail that traverses the southern shoreline of Yellowstone Lake or via the Heart River trail/Snake River trail from the park's southern border.

Heart Lake is within the Heart Lake Bear Management Area and access to the area is closed between April 1 and June 1 annually.[7]


See also



Notes


  1. "Heart Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Whittlesey, Lee (1988). Yellowstone Place Names. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 71. ISBN 0-917298-15-2.
  3. Hayden, F. (1883). "A Report of the progress of the exploration in Wyoming and Idaho For the Year 1878". US Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: 469.
  4. Yellowstone Resources and Issues: 2006, page 199
  5. "2021 Yellowstone National Park Fishing Regulations" (PDF). nps.gov/yell. February 2022.
  6. Parks, Richard (2003). Fishing Yellowstone National Park-An Angler's Complete Guide to more than 100 streams, rivers and lakes (2nd ed.). Guildford, CT: Globe Pequot Press. pp. 107–108. ISBN 0-7627-2285-1.
  7. "Yellowstone National Park-Bear Management Areas".

На других языках

[de] Heart Lake (Wyoming)

Der Heart Lake ist ein See am östlichen Fuße des Mount Sheridan im Yellowstone-Nationalpark, im US-Bundesstaat Wyoming. Er liegt auf einer Höhe von 2274 m[1] im Heart Lake Geyser Basin im südlichen Teil des Parkes.[2] Nahe dem See befinden sich einige Geysire wie der Rustic Geyser und heiße Quellen wie der Columbia Pool.[3] Der Abfluss erfolgt über den Heart River an der südöstlichen Seeseite.
- [en] Heart Lake (Wyoming)


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