Name: Queens Laundry

County: Teton

Authority Name: 

GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1105212W

Latitude: 443346N

Legal Description:

Elevation: 7214/2199

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Spring

Origin of Name:

Thermal spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., near Sentinel Creek and northwest boundary of Lower Geyser Basin.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

A quarter of a mile beyond (the Twin Domes) is an extraordinary fountain of boiling water called the Queen's Laundry. It has a basin thirty by fifty feet in dimensions, whence its crystal waters overflow and descend by an extensive series of low terraces that are divided into innumerable small pools, which are partitioned by beautiful coral-like ridges into natural bath-tubs a foot to four feet in depth, the sides of which are enameled in purest white. The water, which is exceedingly soft, gradually cools as it flows over each succeeding terrace, so that a bath may be taken at any desired temperature.