A woman suffered burns on her leg after hiking off-trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman suffered burns on her leg after hiking off trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.

She was walking off-trail with her husband and leashed dog when she broke through and suffered second- and third-degree burns.

A woman visiting Yellowstone National Park reportedly suffered second- and third-degree burns after wandering off-trail in a thermal area on Monday, park officials announced. The unidentified woman, 60,

Spanning swaths of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, Yellowstone National Park is home to one of the most famous images to come out of the 63 national parks across the country. The bright blue, green and orange colors of the geothermal geyser Old Faithful are caused by thermophiles or microscopic organisms that thrive in hot temperatures in spring water rising from deep within the ground.

A 60-year-old woman suffered severe burns after she fell through the ground near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park on Monday (September 16) afternoon. The National Park Service said that the woman,

Yellowstone National Park has reported its first known thermal injury of the year. A 60-year-old woman visiting from Windsor, New Hampshire, who was not identified by name, reportedly suffered second- and third-degree burns to her lower leg on Monday afternoon while walking in a thermal area near Mallard Lake Trailhead at Old Faithful.

Walking in a thermal region of Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park resulted in serious injuries for a 60-year-old woman from New Hampshire

A 60-year-old woman from New Hampshire suffered second and third degree burns while walking off trail in a thermal area at Old Faithful in Yellowstone National