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Superintendent Cam Sholly led Yellowstone National Park thru an unprecedented year but gateway communities, park staff, and visitors made 2020 a success.

2015 – 4,097,710 This will be the first year since 2015 that visitation hasn’t crossed the four million mark. It also the lowest visitation number since 2014 – 3.51 million people. Despite COVID-19, delayed openings of park entrances, and a global pandemic – the difference between 2019’s and 2020’s Yellowstone visitation . . .  . . . was only  5%. Yellowstone’s 2020 summer season didn’t get off to a great start. While the Wyoming Entrances (East and South) opened close to their usual time mid-May, the three Montana Entrances (North, West, and Northeast) stayed closed until J...

Roads in Yellowstone National Park opened to visitors traveling by snowmobile and snowcoach Tuesday, and some guides are incorporating new measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Commercially guided snowmobiles and snowcoaches can haul visitors through Yellowstone until oversnow travel ends in mid-March. Tour companies in and around the park offer guided snowmobile and snowcoach tours. Some are incorporating new restrictions on snowcoach tours in response to the novel coronavirus. Passengers aboard snowcoach tours hosted by Yellowstone National Park Lodges are required to wear face masks,...

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If you love Montana's great outdoors and its recreation, even under a blanket of snow, consider a Yellowstone National Park adventure.