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Old Faithful erupting in the Upper Geyser Basin, the travertine terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs, the fire lookout view from Mount Washburn, Roosevelt Arch at the North Entrance, the elk antler arches of Jackson Hole Town Square, and the Yellowstone River rolling through Gardiner, Montana. Six cameras across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Live 24/7.
Old Faithful, the park gates, and two gateway towns
The National Park Service runs ten webcams across Yellowstone itself; this page highlights the Old Faithful livestream, Mammoth Hot Springs, Mount Washburn and the North Entrance's Roosevelt Arch. Two more feeds sit just outside the park boundary — Jackson Hole Town Square in Wyoming to the south, and the Yellowstone River at Gardiner, Montana, right at the North Entrance — rounding out a picture of the wider region rather than the park alone.
Yellowstone live — the world's first national park, sitting on top of an active supervolcano
Yellowstone became the world's first national park in 1872, decades before the concept existed anywhere else on Earth — a designation that predates the National Park Service itself by 44 years. The park sits directly above the Yellowstone Caldera, an active supervolcano whose last major eruption, roughly 640,000 years ago, ejected enough material to bury a significant portion of North America in ash; the same magma chamber powers every geyser, hot spring and mudpot in the park today. Old Faithful, the park's signature geyser, erupts roughly every 44 to 125 minutes depending on the length of the previous eruption — reliable enough to predict, unpredictable enough that rangers still post live estimates rather than a fixed schedule. Wolves, eradicated from the park by the 1920s, were reintroduced in 1995 and have since reshaped the ecosystem in ways still studied today.
What the cameras show
Old Faithful & Upper Geyser Basin — the park's signature livestream
NPS · Old Faithful · Upper Geyser Basin · LivestreamFunded by a Canon USA grant to Yellowstone Forever, this is the only true livestream among the park's webcams — a continuous video feed of Old Faithful and the surrounding Upper Geyser Basin, home to roughly 500 active geysers, the densest concentration on the planet. The NPS page runs live eruption predictions alongside the feed for Old Faithful, Castle, Grand, Daisy, Riverside and Great Fountain geysers.
Watch live →Mammoth Hot Springs — travertine terraces in constant motion
NPS · Mammoth Hot Springs · Travertine TerracesWater rising through limestone at Mammoth Hot Springs carries dissolved calcium carbonate to the surface, where it's deposited as travertine — the chalky white rock forming the terraces, which visibly reshape themselves over months and years rather than staying fixed like typical rock formations. The camera frame also includes the parade grounds of historic Fort Yellowstone, the US Army's former headquarters for the park.
Watch live →Mount Washburn — the view from a working fire lookout
NPS · Mount Washburn · 3,115m · Fire lookoutAt 3,115m, Mount Washburn towers over Dunraven Pass between Tower Junction and Canyon Village. This camera sits inside the fire lookout's living quarters, staffed each summer by an employee tracking wildfires across the park — occasionally repositioning the camera during fire season, when smoke may drift into frame. It doubles as one of the park's most popular day-hike destinations.
Watch live →North Entrance — Roosevelt Arch at Gardiner, Montana
NPS · North Entrance · Roosevelt Arch · 1903President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for this basalt arch in 1903 during a park visit, and it has carried his name since. Inscribed with the phrase "For the benefit and enjoyment of the people" — language lifted from the 1872 act establishing Yellowstone — the arch frames the park's oldest and most-used entrance, with elk, bison and pronghorn regularly grazing in camera view.
Watch live →Jackson Hole Town Square — elk antler arches, Wyoming
SeeJH · Jackson Hole · Town Square · Yeah Buddy PizzaStreamed from Yeah Buddy Pizza overlooking George Washington Memorial Park, this camera looks across downtown Jackson's town square toward its famous elk antler arches — built from antlers naturally shed each year by the National Elk Refuge herd just outside town. Jackson Hole is also the gateway to Grand Teton National Park and to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, home of Corbet's Couloir and one of the largest continuous vertical drops in North American skiing.
Watch live →Yellowstone River at Gardiner, Montana — the river below the North Entrance
Montana Whitewater · Gardiner, MT · Electric PeakStreamed from Montana Whitewater's office deck in Gardiner, this camera looks out over the Yellowstone River with Mt. Sepulcher and Electric Peak — the tallest summit in the Gallatin Range, at 3,344m — rising in the background. The Yellowstone is one of the longest undammed rivers in the continental United States, and this stretch through Gardiner is a working whitewater rafting run as much as a scenic backdrop.
Watch live →Every geyser, hot spring and mudpot at Yellowstone runs on the same underlying heat source: a magma chamber sitting a few kilometres beneath the surface, part of the same system responsible for at least three cataclysmic eruptions over the past 2.1 million years, the most recent roughly 640,000 years ago. The park's ground genuinely rises and falls by measurable amounts over years as the magma chamber fills and drains, and the US Geological Survey maintains continuous seismic and deformation monitoring specifically because of it. None of this makes an eruption imminent — current probability estimates put a repeat supereruption at roughly 1 in 730,000 in any given year — but it's the honest reason the ground here is never actually still.
Yellowstone beyond the cameras
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and the skiing that built the town's reputation: Corbet's Couloir, a near-vertical chute requiring a genuine leap of faith to enter, has anchored Jackson Hole's reputation among expert skiers for decades. The resort's aerial tram climbs over 1,260m of vertical in roughly nine minutes, among the largest continuous lift-served descents in North America — a serious draw independent of Yellowstone itself.
Wolf reintroduction and the Lamar Valley: The 1995 reintroduction of grey wolves, absent from Yellowstone for nearly 70 years, triggered cascading ecological changes researchers still track — altered elk behaviour, recovering aspen and willow stands, even changes to river course stability. The Lamar Valley, in the park's northeast, remains the most reliable wildlife-watching corridor in the park.
Six cameras across two states and one national park boundary: Old Faithful and Mammoth show the geology that makes Yellowstone genuinely unlike anywhere else on Earth, Roosevelt Arch shows the century-old infrastructure built to let people see it responsibly, and Jackson Hole and Gardiner show the two very different gateway towns — one built on skiing and elk antlers, the other on rivers and a highway sign — that have grown up around the edges of a supervolcano nobody can actually see from ground level.
When to watch
Old Faithful, check predictions before watching: The NPS page posts live eruption-window estimates for Old Faithful and five other geysers — worth checking before settling in, since gaps between eruptions run 44 to 125 minutes.
Mount Washburn in summer: Wildfire season means the fire lookout camera is most actively monitored and occasionally repositioned between June and September, offering the widest range of views.
North Entrance and Gardiner River cam, early morning in winter: Electric Peak catches direct morning sun especially well in winter, and wildlife — elk, bison, pronghorn — is most active at both entrance cameras around dawn.
Getting there: Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN, Montana) serves the North Entrance side, roughly 1h30 from Gardiner; Jackson Hole Airport (JAC, Wyoming) — the only commercial airport inside a national park in the US — sits closest to the South Entrance and Grand Teton. Driving between Jackson Hole and Gardiner via the park itself takes 3-4 hours depending on season and wildlife traffic jams, a genuine daily occurrence in Yellowstone.
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