Virginia Cascades

Virginia Cascades is a 60-foot waterfall on the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park, just south of the Norris-Canyon road east of Norris Junction, with access by a one-way road to the north side. Its name preserves an episode in Yellowstone’s early road-building era. In 1880, superintendent Philetus Norris called it Norris Falls, but in 1886 Ed Lamartine, builder of the first wagon road between Norris and Canyon, renamed it for Virginia Gibson, wife of Charles Gibson of the Yellowstone Park Association concessions. Geologist Arnold Hague accepted the name, and the falls remain a notable roadside scenic feature on the route.

Wyoming · United States