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airestudiosmt

airestudiosmt

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Just an FYI for those planning a trip to Yellowstone in the near future. The area has, and is experiencing unprecedented rainfall in the past few days causing severe flooding. The road in the photo is from Gardiner to Mammoth. This section of the road if completely undermined and gone will be that way for some time maybe all summer into fall or later. So, with all of the other road construction that is going on, there will be some additional roads and bridges that will need to be inspected and repaired.

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Wow, I just watched a news piece on the flooding in Red Lodge Montana and it's pretty crazy. We had a big fast moving storm roll through last night where it poured for about half an hour but it sounds like Yellowstone and up into Montana got hit a lot harder.
 
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Hope all people are OK and get out safely. This will take some time to fix and get back on track. Scratch this off the 2022 list. Sorry for those who hoped to visit this year.
 
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I doubt it will be that way all summer. Repairing the road into Gardiner will take priority over everything else, I would bet. But I wouldn't expect it to be fixed until well into July.
 
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RikWriter said:
I doubt it will be that way all summer. Repairing the road into Gardiner will take priority over everything else, I would bet. But I wouldn't expect it to be fixed until well into July.
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Yeah that road washout will take a bit. We had a similar one up on the road to the Gros Ventre campground in Grand Teton National Park a few springs ago and it took a couple of months to get even a temporary fix for the washout and longer for an actual long term fix.

I also just saw a piece that a bridge outside the park in Gardiner Montana was also swept away out and that will likely take even longer to fix. Currently there's no passable roads into or out of Gardiner Montana. That was one heck of a storm.

www.bloomberg.com

Yellowstone Floods Wipe Out Roads, Bridges, Strand Visitors

Helena, Mont. (AP) -- Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday, washing out roads and bridges, cutting off electricity and forcing visitors to evacuate parts of the iconic park at the height of summer tourist season.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
 
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DRwyoming said:
Yeah that road washout will take a bit. We had a similar one up on the road to the Gros Ventre campground in Grand Teton National Park a few springs ago and it took a couple of months to get even a temporary fix for the washout and longer for an actual long term fix.

I also just saw a piece that a bridge outside the park in Gardiner Montana was also swept away out and that will likely take even longer to fix. Currently there's no passable roads into or out of Gardiner Montana. That was one heck of a storm.

www.bloomberg.com

Yellowstone Floods Wipe Out Roads, Bridges, Strand Visitors

Helena, Mont. (AP) -- Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday, washing out roads and bridges, cutting off electricity and forcing visitors to evacuate parts of the iconic park at the height of summer tourist season.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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There was a one-lane bridge up in the Tom Miner Basin that was swept away. Is that the one you mean?
 
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DRwyoming said:
Not sure, it was mentioned in the article above but not much detail on exactly what bridge.
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It's the only one I've seen videos of. But there are road sections in the northern loop between Soda Butte and the NE entrance that have been washed away. Gonna take a couple months, maybe longer to get them open. I'd bet that the whole northern loop of the park, except Mammoth, is going to be closed well into the fall. I think they get the road to Mammoth open ASAP because too much depends on that being open. The southern loop should reopen as soon as the river levels go down since there hasn't been any road damage there.
 
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RikWriter said:
There was a one-lane bridge up in the Tom Miner Basin that was swept away. Is that the one you mean?
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That's the one that got washed away.

We have plans to camp just South of Red Lodge in a couple of weeks but after seeing the flooding there I doubt that's going to happen. They have some heartbreaking flooding going on right now.
 
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Traveled the Lamar Valley yesterday and rivers were dangerous then. We received heavy rains at Roosevelt Lodge all night and the only way out this morning was through Mammoth and south. We made a wise decision to checkout early and head home. Talked to a park ranger and he said they were afraid they were going to lose the road through the Lamar Canyon. By 11 they were evacuating the northern park. I just received a text that the road through Hayden Valley along the Yellowstone River was closed.

Lots of water on the roads and rock slides in the canyons, and it is supposed to freeze and snow tonight.

Gardner, Silver Gate, and Cooke city were all flooded.

I survived the fires of 1988 and the floods of 2022, I think I’m going to make myself a t-shirt.
 
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Steve said:
I was thinking of YNP this fall, but that road is going to take some serious time to repair (and it's the one I use when I go). Always next year. :)
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The YNP west entrance (West Yellowstone) and the lower loop are re-opening next week 6-22-22 last date I heard. The upper loop is quite possibly going to be open by fall but probably not the north entrance south of Red Lodge.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Yeah that road washout will take a bit. We had a similar one up on the road to the Gros Ventre campground in Grand Teton National Park a few springs ago and it took a couple of months to get even a temporary fix for the washout and longer for an actual long term fix.

I also just saw a piece that a bridge outside the park in Gardiner Montana was also swept away out and that will likely take even longer to fix. Currently there's no passable roads into or out of Gardiner Montana. That was one heck of a storm.

www.bloomberg.com

Yellowstone Floods Wipe Out Roads, Bridges, Strand Visitors

Helena, Mont. (AP) -- Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday, washing out roads and bridges, cutting off electricity and forcing visitors to evacuate parts of the iconic park at the height of summer tourist season.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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That bridge led to Tom Miner Basin, a favorite haunt for grizz. Always saw them there, but most times at a very long distance.
 
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With the extensive damage done by the rivers it is not a matter of repaving but having to build structures that can resist heavy water flows as well as heavy truck traffic. For highway 89 it will be best if the damaged sections of the roadway are relocated completely to the east and away from the river. Civil engineering plans to be made (hopefully not by the Corps of Engineers given their dismal track record) and alternatives considered and bids put out for the work and this alone will take a couple years. Better to plow Hwy 212 to keep it open during the winter but I doubt this will happen.

What is pathetic is the USGS calling this a 500-year event. Lots of "500-year floods" that are happening in the same areas two to three times in a 5 year period but they still use this very outdated term. Looking backwards to predict events when so much has radically changed in the past 50 years shows a widespread lack of critical thinking. People do not understand or appreciate that even if flood insurance is available ones house needs to be located on an official flood plain map and these have never been updated. The people in Gardiner may benefit from government aid but not from home insurance and that applies to the structures and all their possessions that were lost as well.
 
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I was two days away from Yellowstone when it happened and am now holed up in Jackson. South loop of Yellowstone opens Wednesday to vehicles with odd numbered plates and Thursday to even numbered plates. Plates with no numbers are treated as odd (sounds appropriate) and thereafter entry reserved to even number plates on even days and odd numbered plates on odd days.

Park Service says north entry road can’t be rebuilt and the plan is to build new road over old stage coach road from Gardiner to Mammoth. I’m hearing, and reading, rumors of trying to open portions of the north loop this season, but have trouble believing it after all the damage I’ve seen via video from different sources. What a terrible mess up north. I can see numerous small businesses being lost as a result. So sorry for those folks.
 
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