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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...