Shoshone Lake

The Shoshone Lake is the largest lake with no road access in the U.S. and the second largest lake in Yellowstone National Park. It is located at 2376 m altitude southwest of Yellowstone Lake in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Accessible he is on foot and by canoe from Lake Lewis. The length of the lake measures approximately 10 km and the width varies between 0.8 km and 7 km. The area is 31 km ². Major tributaries of the Shoshone Lake are the Shoshone Creek in the northwest, the De Lacy Creek in the northeast and the Moose Creek in the south of the eastern expansion. As drainage of the Lewis River, which connects the Shoshone Lake to the Lewis Lake serves. The densely wooded shore of Shoshone Lake are mostly rocky and especially in the East gruffly. The water is very clear and colder than that of Yellowstone Lake.

1867 marked the Inspector General of Montana, Solomon Meredith, the hitherto nameless lake to Walter Washington DeLacy as DeLacy 's Lake. DeLacy had in 1863 the Snake River to its source, the Shoshone Lake, explored. 1872 appointed Professor Frank H. Bradley, participants of the second expedition of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden in the Yellowstone area, the lake in Shoshone Lake to. He paid tribute to the lake as one of the main sources of the Shoshone River, now called the Snake River.