it tilted part of Yellowstone Lake inside the park, crumbled the grand fireplace in he dining hall of Old Faithful Inn and trapped park visitors for hours as there were boulders and slides on the roads. There's a short video about it with all the news clips and interviews with a timeline, there's a short book that goes with it.

If you go to the area, there are several places along the Madison River where you can see remnants of the old road and parts of cabins still lodged in the mud near Campfire Lodge.

The museum in West Yellowstone had an exhibit about it but the museum has changed a great deal so i don't know about that now, haven't been in for while.

ETA: And a whole bunch of people got buried under the pile of mountain, they say it was 80 million cubic tons of material, and it buried an entire campground... they're still there.

visited that a house was still embedded in the lake when we toured the quake area...probably already gone by now...

about three cabins down Ghost Canyon (The dirt road to Refuge Point fishing access) on the far side of the river. Last time I was down there was about two years ago.

The Quake Lake Visitor Center has been upgraded in the past few years and it sits in the middle of the talus pile that the event left behind, pretty much where the campground used to be. The outflow channel of the lake is still about the same after all these years as well.

(I worked for the museum for a short time so I go to learn a lot about it during that time and living in the area for years, I had plenty of opportunity to talk to some of the elders who were there that night.)

Thanks for sharing your memories and descriptions.

A forgotten history for certain.

He said his first indication of the earthquake was all the keys jingling on the wall.

He looked out at the parking lot and it was like waves on the ocean. Cars going up and down.

I've been to the Quake Lake visitors center many times, and camped along the waters. It's fascinating what happened there, but terrible for the people that were shoreline on Hebgen Dam and the river that night.

Thank you for the beautiful memorial post.

and never knew much of the info at the links in your OP. Thank you very much! There are survivors of this quake who were camping near the massive slide that are speaking tonight about their experience at the Quake Lake visitors center. Wish I could be there. Fascinating.

I remember hearing about it.

and born and raised in Missoula. Obviously he wasn’t alive when the quake happened...but he’s an outdoorsman and was wide eyed when he read the story about the campground that was engulfed in the slide during the quake. Folks that camped in that place way back then were bad ass to be sure.