Overhanging Cliff

Overhanging Cliff ^[1]
Cliff
Basalt columns at Overhanging Cliff
Official name: Overhanging Cliff

Country	United States
State	Wyoming
Region	Park County
District	Yellowstone National Park

Elevation	2,030 m (6,660 ft)
Coordinates	44°53′44″N 110°23′22″W / 44.89556°N 110.38944°W / 44.89556; -110.38944Coordinates: 44°53′44″N 110°23′22″W / 44.89556°N 110.38944°W / 44.89556; -110.38944

Overhanging Cliff is a cliff^[2] of vertical basalt that overhangs the Grand Loop Road just north of Tower Fall on the north rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park. The point was most likely named by a member of the Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition, David Folsum in 1869.^[3]

Notes

↑ "Overhanging Cliff". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ Very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock)"Feature Class Definitions". Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
↑ Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). Yellowstone Place Names-Mirrors of History. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. p. 87. ISBN 0870813838.

Yellowstone National Park - Tower-Roosevelt and Lamar Valley

Geography, historic structures and other attractions in the Tower Roosevelt and Lamar Valley areas

Structures and History	Grand Loop Road Historic District John F. Yancey Lamar Buffalo Ranch Northeast Entrance Station Roosevelt Lodge Historic District Yanceys, Wyoming

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