Yellowstone NP

Beehive Geyser

Beehive geyser is a cone-type geyser. Its summer-time intervals during the past few years have ranged from a little over 8 hours, to about a day, a few days with most intervals around a day or less. In the winter the intervals have often become longer and more erratic.

Beehive's duration is about 5 minutes. For most of its duration, it maintains its maximum height of as much as 200 feet. Because of the fine spray-like nature of the eruption, the top of the water column is often chopped off by strong winds but the eruption is still impressive.