Colter's Hell
Colter's Hell is a volcanic area on the Shoshone River near Cody in the US state of Wyoming . It was named after the trapper John Colter , who was probably the first white man to go there in the winter of 1807/1808. At times Colter's Hell was mistakenly confused with the area of the later Yellowstone National Park , which was often referred to as the area of the great volcanoes , the area of the boiling waterfalls or similar before its official name . Colter's Hell was described in a very similar way.
Other early descriptions of Colter's Hell come from the trapper Joseph Meek from 1830 and from Plenty Coups , a chief of the Absarokee Indians who camped with his people at the extinct volcano around 1840.
Today there are only steam fumaroles , in Colter's time geysers are likely.
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Coordinates: 44 ° 31 '12 " N , 109 ° 7' 27" W.