YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — It’s officially 2025, but instead of popping champagne bottles, Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is letting the geysers do the spraying.
On Wednesday, Jan. 1, YNP posted photos to its Facebook of geyser eruptions to ring in the new year.
“In lieu of popping champagne bottles, we welcome the new year with geyser eruptions!” the Park wrote. “Cheers to another year of awe-inspiring adventures!”
According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), geyser eruptions are due to water deep in the ground getting heated up by nearby hot rocks and the pressure of the overlying rocks releasing to cause an eruption. The USGS writes on its website that natural geysers are rare on Earth; there are fewer than 1,000 worldwide with about half of them in YNP.
