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Because of major construction, Yellowstone National Park is reducing visitor access to some areas near the Northeast Entrance to allow vehicle access by the end of October. The effort to reconnect Yellowstone National Park’s road corridors is going well. While it will take years to complete the extensive work, the park’s construction crews are promising…
John Mayer rallies support for the Montana communities devastated by this summer’s floods during three sold-out performances at the Pine Creek Lodge. The Pine Creek Lodge near Livingston, Montana, is hosting Rise to the River – a fundraiser for communities devastated by the floods of mid-June. And the event’s star attraction is Grammy-award-winning musician John…
June attendance in Yellowstone National Park was considerably lower in 2022, but considering a week’s closure, two severed entrances, and devastating floods – it’s not as low as many feared. Yellowstone National Park’s 150th anniversary has been one of the most disruptive in its history. However, while the park’s attendance is considerably lower than the…
Extensive repairs on the Montana side of U.S. 212 are finished, and the Beartooth Highway can finally reopen for Summer 2022, and this time – hopefully – it will stay open. To say Summer 2022 has been unorthodox is a tremendous understatement. Extreme weather has created such dangerous conditions that the flow of summer tourism…
Record floods have given way to dry timber as Yellowstone National Park’s high fire danger is a reminder that it won’t take much for another record-breaking event of nature to devastate the region. On Wednesday, July 20, Yellowstone officials raised the park’s fire danger to High. According to the U.S. Forest Service’s Wildfire Assessment System, “a…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man drove his pickup truck into a family as they walked in a tourist village bordering Glacier National Park and opened fire with a shotgun, killing one man and mortally wounding a toddler who was in her mother’s arms before the mother’s sister-in-law managed to kill the assailant after he…
The Yellowstone Quilt Fest (YQF) takes place on Friday, July 29th, and Saturday, July 30th at the Riley Arena and Event Center in Cody, Wyoming. This will be the first time the Quilt Show has been held at Riley Arena, according to a recent press release. Admission is $5 per person at the door. Special…
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” This quote from Ernest Hemingway, one of the most influential American novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, is part of the understated wit that made Hemingway famous. Critics, scholars, and enthusiasts from around the world are…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially concealing problems with a pipeline that broke in 2015 and spilled more than 50,000 gallons (240,000 liters) of crude into Montana’s Yellowstone River, fouling a small city’s drinking water supply, court filings show. The government is suing Bridger Pipeline for violations of environmental…
“I think it’s nothing sort of miraculous that we were able to reopen 93% of the park in such a short amount of time,” Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park Cam Sholly says. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, joined by Assistant Secretary Shannon Estenoz, and Cam Sholly, gave statements this morning for a media appearance…