- A woman disregarded warnings and immersed her hand in a scalding hot spring at Yellowstone National Park.
- Another visitor managed to capture a video of the incident, showing the woman hastily retracting her hand while shouting, “It’s hot!”
- The National Park Service (NPS) states that hot springs at Yellowstone have caused more injuries and fatalities than any other natural feature.
A woman at Yellowstone National Park disregarded warnings and decided to dip her hand into one of the park’s renowned hot springs. However, she quickly retreated in shock after experiencing the scorching heat of the water.
The entire incident was captured on video by another visitor and uploaded to the Instagram account TouronsofYellowstone.
This Instagram account, known for its humorous name combining “tourist” and “moron,” is dedicated to sharing videos of reckless and dangerous behaviors exhibited by visitors at Yellowstone National Park.
In the uploaded clip from last Wednesday, a man and a woman can be seen standing by the edge of a hot spring, having ventured off the designated boardwalk.
“It’s stupid,” commented a man in the background of the video.
Observing the scene, the woman rolled up her sleeves, crouched down, and attempted to approach the water. Unable to reach it on her own, she grasped her companion’s arm for support and dipped her right hand into the steaming pool of water.
As soon as she made contact, the woman hastily stood up and retreated from the hot spring, exclaiming, “It’s hot! It’s very hot!”
The video was accompanied by a caption written by the original videographer. It read, “Ok, I would have called these people, but I couldn’t find a ranger or any service. Here’s a guy and what I presume is his daughter at what I believe to be Silex Spring in the Fountain Paint Pot trail. I advised him against it and told them not to leave the boardwalk. His response was ‘Whatever man.’ So, I started recording.”
According to the National Park Service (NPS) website, Silex Spring maintains an average temperature of 174.7 degrees Fahrenheit (79.3 degrees Celsius) and last erupted in 2006. The Flower Paint Pot trail is situated within Yellowstone’s active volcano area, and visitors are explicitly instructed to remain on the boardwalk at all times, as indicated by the NPS.
Yellowstone National Park has strict safety regulations, explicitly prohibiting activities such as touching, swimming, and soaking in the hot springs. The NPS emphasizes that “hot springs have injured or killed more people in Yellowstone than any other natural feature.”
The US Geological Survey (USGS) also recognizes Yellowstone’s near-boiling hydrothermal waters as the park’s “gravest threat to visitors.”
According to the NPS, over 20 individuals have died from burns sustained after entering or falling into Yellowstone’s hot springs. In a tragic incident in November 2016, a man dissolved in a Yellowstone hot spring while searching for a place to relax. CNN reported that when rescuers attempted to recover his body the following day, they could not locate any remains.
In October 2021, a 20-year-old woman suffered second-degree burns when she quickly entered a hot spring at Yellowstone while attempting to save her dog. The hot spring in question, Maiden’s Grave Spring, has an average temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NPS.
Last year, in August, an Insider reporter discovered part of a foot still enclosed in a shoe floating in the 53-foot-deep Abyss Pool in the West Thumb Geyser Basin area.
Insider reached out to Yellowstone National Park for comment, but they had yet to respond outside of regular business hours.
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