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Visitors will return to a changed landscape in Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday as it partially 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.…

Hundreds of cars, trucks and recreational vehicles were backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopened Wednesday morning following record floods.

Park managers raised the gates Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since June 13.

Park managers raised the gates Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since June 13.

Park managers raised the gates Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since June 13.

Park managers raised the gates Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since June 13.

Throngs of tourists gleefully watched the legendary Old Faithful geyser shoot towering bursts of steaming water while others got stuck in bison jams on picturesque valley roads as visitors returned Wednesday for the partial reopening of Yellowstone National Park after destructive floods.

Park managers raised the gates Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since June 13.

Park managers raised the gates Wednesday at three of Yellowstone’s five entrances for the first time since June 13.

Several thousand cars, trucks and recreational vehicles were seen up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopened Wednesday morning.