Tourists fined for approaching Yellowstone Old Faithful

Tourists fined for approaching Yellowstone Old Faithful

Many tourists and their leader were fined $ 125 each to ignore the warnings of increasingly close to the famous Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is old.


There are frequent warning signs in several languages ​​in order to prevent visitors from getting too close to dangerous boiling geysers, thermal pools and mud pots.


But the warning could not stop a group of about 30 tourists taking a too-near the Old Faithful geyser that shoots sporadically water is as hot as 200 degrees Celsius.


Four group members were captured on foot to the geyser opening, followed by other group members.



Speaking on the issue, the spokesman for Yellowstone National Park, Al Nash said, "You never want to be near a geyser that or, frankly, looking down the column as apparently some of these visitors were. "



Over three million tourists hit Yellowstone National Park a year and a handful of them illegally venture off the bridge around several thermal characteristics of the park. The spokesman said Park, an average person burns a year.