Gibbon Falls, in Yellowstone National Park, is located on the Gibbon River between Madison Junction and the Norris Geyser Basin. The falls mark the point where the Gibbon River flows off Yellowstone’s northern escarpment and drops into the parks volcanic caldera region. William Henry Jackson and John Merle Coulter of the second Hayden survey discovered these falls on the Gibbon River in 1872. There is no historic reference as to the naming of the falls, but in some of the early park maps the name “First Canon Falls” was used. By the 1880’s the falls were referred to as Gibbon Falls. |
