Northeast Entrance
The reconstruction of the Northeast Entrance Road in Yellowstone National Park in 2022 was an immense achievement. But it’s not quite finished yet. Park officials announced a short section of Yellowstone National Park’s Northeast Entrance Road in Lamar Canyon (between Tower Junction and Lamar Valley) will temporarily close between 7 and 9 p.m. on June…
Stop if you’ve heard this before . . . On Sunday, May 20, a tourist visiting Yellowstone National Park took it upon themself to save a struggling baby bison. While well-intentioned, that action ultimately led to the calf’s death. Carrie Paulson posted an account of the incident in the Facebook group Yellowstone National Park: Invasion…
Yellowstone National Park returns to critical road construction projects to improve and enhance the visitor experience, taking a sizeable chunk out of the park’s maintenance backlog. There will be four major road improvement projects in Yellowstone National Park in 2023. All four projects – Lewis River Bridge, Old Faithful to West Thumb, Yellowstone River Bridge,…
The next massive construction and rehabilitation project in Yellowstone National Park begins in June thanks to $118 million from the Great American Outdoors Act. Yellowstone National Park recently awarded an approximately $118 million construction contract to replace the structurally deficient Yellowstone River Bridge on the Northeast Entrance Road near Tower Junction. Funded by the Great American…
All entrances into Yellowstone National Park closed to all traffic – regular and oversnow – during Wednesday’s snowstorm, a reminder that the new roads are only temporary solutions. An intense, multi-day winter storm began pummeling the Rocky Mountain Region starting Tuesday night. In addition to freezing temperatures, the first day of the storm was accompanied…
I Yellowstone National Park’s Northeast Entrance Road (Tower Junction to the Northeast Entrance in Cooke City/Silver Gate, Montana) will open to regular visitor vehicle traffic Saturday, Oct.15 at 8 a.m. Reopening this section effectively opens “99% of the park’s roads,” officials state. To put it bluntly, the National Park Service’s reconstruction efforts (along with Oftedal…
Beginning next week, Yellowstone National Park will begin closing down major roads within and leading to the park, ending the park’s 150th anniversary and the most challenging summer season ever. Perhaps the most challenging summer season in Yellowstone National Park’s 150-year history is coming to a close. Beginning Oct. 11, Summer 2022 will officially end…
The June flooding in Yellowstone National Park continued taking its toll in August, as the number of visitors flowing through the three open entrances decreased substantially. The busiest season in Yellowstone National Park was substantially slower this year. As the summer of the park’s 150th anniversary opened with devastating floods, 2022’s visitation is the lowest…
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…
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…