Note: Please DO NOT throw rocks down the geyser pipe.  The geyser seems to have been jammed by visitors dropping rocks hoping to trigger an eruption.  You are actually clogging the water flow and making the geyser erupt less and less.  To read more about it read this article from KSL.

I recently went back to Crystal Geyser for a visit.  It was pretty much the same and I was hoping the geyser would go off while I was there but it didn’t.  At one point, I heard so  much gurgling coming from the geyser pipe that I thought I would see it go off but the gurgling slowly died down and nothing happened.  It is apparently rare to see the geyser in action

Crystal Geyser is an out of the way place that features very cool colored rock formations (orange and white travertine) right next to the Green River.

The geyser is very sporadic and only erupts for about an average of 100 minutes per day.  While on our visit, we stayed for about 30 minutes and didn’t see anything but some bubbling near the pipe.  We had lots of fun checking out all the cool colors and formations though.

The geyser was created on accident when a drilling company in 1935 tapped into an underground well hoping to find oil.  The company didn’t find any oil like they were hoping but they discovered they tapped into water that is full of cold water with C02.  In the 1990s a pipe was put in so people won’t fall into the well.  According to the Destination Green River website, the pipe goes down “only a couple hundred meters deep.”

The water from Crystal Geyser is pressured from C02 in the ground.