Overhanging Cliff

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| name = Overhanging Cliff {{cite gnis |id=1848570 |name=Overhanging Cliff}}

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| photo_caption = Basalt columns at Overhanging Cliff

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| location = Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming, United States

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Overhanging Cliff is a cliffVery steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock){{cite web |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=132:8:2951474085772218 |title=Feature Class Definitions |publisher=Geographic Names Information System |accessdate=2012-08-18}} of vertical basalt that overhangs the Grand Loop Road just north of Tower Fall on the north rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park. The point was most likely named by a member of the Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition, David Folsum in 1869.{{cite book |last=Haines |first=Aubrey L. |title=Yellowstone Place Names-Mirrors of History |publisher=University Press of Colorado|location=Niwot, CO|year=1996 |isbn=0870813838 |page=87}}