Yellowstone reopens slowly for the first time since June
Visitors are returning to a changed landscape in Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopens following record floods that reshaped the park.
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Visitors are returning to a changed landscape in Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopens following record floods that reshaped the park.
Tourists crowded several entrances to Yellowstone National Park when it partially reopened on Wednesday, following closures due to record flooding that destroyed homes and roads, forced evacuations and left portions of the area indefinitely inaccessible to visitors.
Three of Yellowstone’s five entrances will open Wednesday for the first time since June 13, when 10,000 visitors were ordered out after rivers surged.
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.
Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen Wednesday following record floods that reshaped the park's landscape.