Name: Specimen Ridge

County: Park

Authority Name: 

GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1101748W

Latitude: 445213N

Legal Description:

Elevation: 8379/2554

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Ridge

Origin of Name:

Ridge, altitude 8,700 feet, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., about 4 miles outheast of the hunction of Yellowstone and Lamar Rivers, extending southeast to Amethyst Mountain. Named, prior to 1870, because of numerous petrified forest remains and great variety of other minerals and semiprecious stones found in the region.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

Name known prior to 1870 based on characteristics of site. Today the tourist may see upon the slopes of Specimen Ridge, side by side, the living and the dead, the little conifers of present growth and the gigantic trunks of unknown species which flourished there eons ago.

Source: Chittenden