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![]() The National Park Service committed over $50 million to restore park access from the North Entrance and Gardiner as soon as possible.Ĭonstruction crews are already hard at work developing the Old Gardiner Road – a dirt wagon road from the 1800s – to restore temporary access from Gardiner to Mammoth Hot Springs. Thankfully, the southern loop might not have to handle all Yellowstone visitors for long. Sholly described a scenario where the park’s total tourist volume spread out over just the southern loop as “a disaster waiting to happen.” However, it won’t be a southern free-for-all.Įven with the southern loop unaffected, park officials considered how the infrastructure would handle another flood: the millions of tourists using that road during the peak of the summer season. Now, Yellowstone will open just over a week after a safe reopening seemed weeks – if not months – away. Because of this, Sholly anticipated that section of the park reopening as early as Monday, June 20. The park’s construction teams could adequately handle the comparatively minimal damage on the southern loop. After initial assessments, it was determined the damage in the north was “fairly catastrophic,” but the south was largely unaffected by the floods. The conference was a mix of good news and bad. ![]() Yellowstone superintendent Cam Sholly held a virtual press conference the next day. At this point, there was no reopening date announced. While most of the damage occurred on the northern loop, park officials closed and evacuated the entire park to ensure public safety and assess the damage to park infrastructure. Floodwaters devastated the North and Northeast Entrances in Montana, completely cutting off two gateway communities – Gardiner and Cooke City – from the park. Yellowstone closed on Monday, June 13, after a “high water event” damaged several roads in the park. Courtesy National Park Service & Jacob Frank Infrastructure along the southern loop has been inspected and deemed ready for vehicle traffic to resume and staffing levels are enough to handle the anticipated tourist traffic.
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