Road Construction
Annual public meetings are scheduled in July and August to address future highway and bridge improvement projects in northwest Wyoming. The State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) process involves annual meetings with public officials and citizens who play key transportation partnership roles in Wyoming, said Wyoming Department of Transportation District Engineer Pete Hallsten, P.E., of Basin.…
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…
Even though the weather indicates otherwise, construction season has arrived, which means the orange candlesticks and barrels will be blooming earlier than the tulips this year. Motorists traveling I-90 between the Wyoming/South Dakota state line and Gillette will be encountering several paving and bridge repair operations over the next several months. These projects will stretch…
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…
There will always be road and highway construction in northwest Wyoming, but since W.Y.D.O.T. has finished major projects in the region, all the work this summer will be smaller in scale with shorter delays and quick completion. W.Y.D.O.T. Public Relations Specialist Cody Beers was the featured speaker at the Cody Club lunch on Monday, March…
The new corridor from Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs was built out of necessity, but the expertly engineered road is already an experience that Yellowstone visitors will savor for years to come. The four-mile corridor steeply climbs along the rugged contours of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Grazing pronghorn and bugling elk watch plaintively as the…
A two-year bridge construction project is underway in Worland, which means residents should take detours and stick to main roads until the project is complete in June 2024. W.Y.D.O.T. announced a two-year project has started to replace three bridges and reconstruct a small piece of Wyoming Highway 433 (West River Road) roadway near Worland. The…
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…
Several state and federal agencies collaborated to complete the multi-million dollar Beartooth Highway project, which will improve the safety, environmental impact, and overall experience of one of the main roads to Yellowstone National Park. It was a cold and cloudy day as people gathered at a newly constructed scenic pullout for the Sept. 22 ribbon-cutting…