JUNE 22, 2022:
WAPITI, Wyo. (AP) — Visitors will return to a changed landscape in Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday (June 22, 2022) as it reopens following record floods that reshaped the park’s rivers and canyons, wiped out numerous roads and left some areas famous for their wildlife viewing inaccessible possibly for months to come. Park managers are raising the gates at 8 a.m. Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since the June 13 flooding. That day, 10,000 visitors were ordered out after rivers across northern Wyoming and southern Montana surged over their banks following several inches of rainfall that accelerated the spring snowmelt.
JUNE 20, 2022:
GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials say most of Yellowstone National Park should re-open within the next two weeks — much faster than originally expected after record floods pounded the Yellowstone region last week and knocked out major roads. But Yellowstone’s superintendent said the park will be able to accommodate fewer visitors for the time being, and it will take many months to re-connect the world-renowned park’s roads with some southern Montana communities. Meanwhile, some of those hardest hit in the disaster — far outside the famous park’s limelight — are leaning heavily on one another to pull their lives out of the mud.
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