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Kepler Cascades is a roadside waterfall on Yellowstone National Park’s Firehole River, about 2.5 miles south of Old Faithful. Instead of a single drop, it descends about 150 feet through a series of cascades, the longest roughly 50 feet, in a gorge cut through trachyte lava. The falls were observed during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in 1870, and Gustavus C. Doane later recalled the river’s successive roaring drops in his 1871 report. In 1881, superintendent Philetus Norris named the cascades for Kepler Hoyt, the 12-year-old son of Wyoming territorial governor John Wesley Hoyt, giving Yellowstone a notably personal place name.
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