Colter's Hell

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Colter's Hell is a volcanic area at the Shoshone river near Cody in the US state of Wyoming. It was named after the trapper John Colter who dwelled there in the Winter of 1807/1808. In the past, Colter's Hell was erroneously considered part of area of the future Yellowstone national park which was called 'area of the big volcanoes' or 'area of the boiling water falls' or similar before its official appellation.

Other early descriptions of Colter's Hell date back to the trapper Joseph Meek in the year of 1830 as well as to Plenty Coups, a chief of the Absarokee Indians, who camped with his tribe at the extinct volcano in 1840.