It sounds impossible but you can actually do it. Standing in two oceans at the same time, especially when they are thousands of miles apart, sounds like quite the feat. There is a rare geological wonder in Wyoming that lets you stand in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans at the same time.
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YouTube/Julia Schicktanz This unique spot in Wyoming is located in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. There’s a place where Two Ocean Creek splits in two. The place where this occurs is called Two Ocean Pass and the exact spot is called Parting of the Waters.
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By United States Geological Survey - http://ims.er.usgs.gov/gda_services/download?item_id=5616608, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32616259 Two Ocean Pass is located in a meadow along the Continental Divide Trail about 35 miles southeast of Yellowstone National Park. Two Ocean Creek splits into two creeks: Pacific Creek and Atlantic Creek.
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YouTube/Julia Schicktanz Each creek heads in opposite directions and flows into rivers and finally into their prospective oceans. Pacific Creek flows into the Snake and Columbia Rivers for about a thousand miles when it finally reaches the Pacific Ocean. Atlantic Creek flows for around three thousand miles through the Yellowstone, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, on to the Gulf of Mexico and finally to the Atlantic Ocean.
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A 15-mile hike with forests, rivers, mountains, meadows, wildflowers and a waterfall will lead you to this unusual spot. To follow along on this trail to Parting of the Waters, check out this footage by YouTube user, Julia Schicktanz.
By Ericshawwhite - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33378700
YouTube/Julia Schicktanz
This unique spot in Wyoming is located in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. There’s a place where Two Ocean Creek splits in two. The place where this occurs is called Two Ocean Pass and the exact spot is called Parting of the Waters.
By Unknown - Popular Science Monthly Volume 47, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14513834
By United States Geological Survey - http://ims.er.usgs.gov/gda_services/download?item_id=5616608, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32616259
Two Ocean Pass is located in a meadow along the Continental Divide Trail about 35 miles southeast of Yellowstone National Park. Two Ocean Creek splits into two creeks: Pacific Creek and Atlantic Creek.
Each creek heads in opposite directions and flows into rivers and finally into their prospective oceans. Pacific Creek flows into the Snake and Columbia Rivers for about a thousand miles when it finally reaches the Pacific Ocean. Atlantic Creek flows for around three thousand miles through the Yellowstone, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, on to the Gulf of Mexico and finally to the Atlantic Ocean.
At Parting of the Waters in Two Ocean Pass, place one foot in Pacific Creek and the other in Atlantic Creek and you will be standing in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the same time!
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