BEEHIVE GEYSER is a darling favorite geyser of many. It usually erupts taller than Old Faithful, about a minute longer than Old Faithful and you can stand closer to it on the boardwalk than you can Old Faithful. Some people choose to stand in the spray of the geyser on a hot day that can soak you to the skin with cold water unless you wear a poncho or other wet weather gear. While the water comes out hot, it quickly breaks into small drops that cool in the wind. As with all geysers, the silica in the water from the spray will leave a hard water deposit on what it touches (glasses, camera lenses, etc.) – so wipe it off quickly.

WATCH FOR: Beehive’s Indicator Geyser – a small geyser next to the Beehive’s cone (looks like a large hunk of rock) that shoots water up a little higher than the height of the cone. It usually erupts anywhere from a couple minutes to 20 minutes before the main eruption; although Beehive-less Indicator eruptions as well as Indicator-less Beehive eruptions do happen occasionally.

FIELD NOTES

June 2020 | Seen about once a day with a pause of 4 days that happened between June 6 and June 10.