Name: Chocolate Pots

County: Park

Authority Name: 

GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1104433W

Latitude: 444236N

Legal Description:

Elevation: 7352/2241

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Spring

Origin of Name:

Thermal springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., in Gibbon Canyon of Gibbon River - small hot springs, along and even out in the river, having small cones coated with algae and iron, looking like chocolate.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

Gibbon Chocolate Pots, one on the right of the road and very near it, the other on the west side of the stream ...; they are chocolate-colored cones, ten to fifteen feet high, with a constant stream of hot water issuing from the top and pouring over the sides of the cones.

Source: Campbell