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Federal officials say most of Yellowstone National Park should reopen within two weeks.

The largest cost will be repairing the roads that connects the park to various surrounding communities.

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, federal officials said Sunday. Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly said the world-renowned park will be able to accommodate fewer visitors for the time being,…

Some communities are trying to figure out how they will pay for flooding damages without having the income provided by summer tourists.

Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as

Park officials said they’ll use $50 million in federal highway money to speed up road and bridge repairs. There’s still no timetable for repairs to routes between the park and areas of Montana where the recovery is expected to stretch for months.

It will take much longer — possibly years — to fully restore two badly-damaged stretches of road that link the park with Gardiner to the north and Cooke City to the northeast.

The largest cost will be repairing the roads that connects the park to various surrounding communities.

Floodwaters that tore through Yellowstone National Park destroyed potentially hundreds of bridges, washed out miles of roads and drove out more than 10,000 visitors.

Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as...