The National Park Service (NPS) is spending $41,125 on a mobile app that will give visitors and virtual visitors to Yellowstone National Park advance notice of the "scheduled eruption times for Old Faithful and other predictable geysers.”
NPS’ Notice of Intent to Award states that it will collaborate with Washington State University "to reach virtual and in-park visitors by communicating accurate eruption schedules in real time as well as provide interactive, informational, and interpretive content" after the first version of the app is released. Old Faithful is known for its predictable eruptions, which are anywhere from 60 to 110 minutes apart depending on the duration of the previous eruption...
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Just in time for Secretary Jewel's budget hearing today.
Are people left in the dark without this app?
Not hardly.
However, there are currently
several other means of accessing geyser eruption times at Yellowstone:
- Visitors at Yellowstone can view eruption times on an
LCD screen at the park’s visitor center;
- The National Park Service also has a Twitter feed
which gives the times of eruption for Old Faithful and a phone number to
find out eruption times for other Yellowstone geysers; and
- There is an Old Faithful Geyser Live video webcam on the NPS website.
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