| Virginia Cascades | |
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 September 1989 | |
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| Location | Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming |
| Coordinates | 44°42′47″N110°38′46″W / 44.71306°N 110.64611°W /44.71306; -110.64611 (Virginia Cascades)[1] |
| Type | Cascade |
| Total height | 60 feet (18 m) |
| Watercourse | Gibbon River |
Virginia Cascades (height 60 feet (18 m)), is a cascade type waterfall on theGibbon River inYellowstone National Park. Virginia Cascades is located just south of the Norris-Canyon road approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Norris Junction. A one-way road provides access to the north side of the cascades.
Virginia Cascades was named in 1886 to honor Virginia Gibson, the wife of Charles Gibson, the head of the Yellowstone Park Association concessions by Ed Lamartine who built the first wagon road between Norris and Canyon. In 1880, then superintendentPhiletus Norris had named the cascades,Norris Falls but geologistArnold Hague, although he did not like to give personal names to scenic features, agreed to the nameVirginia Cascades because he thought it useful to name park features after states in the union.[2]
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Geothermal features, historic structures and other attractions in theNorris and Madison Junction areas | ||
| Norris Geyser Basin |  | |
| Gibbon Geyser Basin | ||
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| Geography and geology | ||
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