Purple Mountain Trail is a 6-mile out-and-back foot trail in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. It climbs 1,500 ft to a high point of 8,433 ft. Difficulty: strenuous, rated by the National Park Service.
Purple Mountain Trail · rated “strenuous hike”
You climb 1,500 feet (0.47 km) in 3 miles (4.8 km) to a panoramic view of the Gibbon and Madison rivers.
Read the official NPS description
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