Yellowstone - All entrances are temporarily closed to incoming traffic.

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This information is from the Yellowstone NPS site. https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/flood-recovery.htm

See last image for ALPS.

For those of you going into the park over the next few weeks or months, let us know what your experience is like.

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On some of the photos I've seen it looks like the river(s) have changed course in a couple areas. Either they will need to route the river bed back to its original flow or re-route the roads around the new river course. Given this was a natural event, they may be digging new road beds in a few spots to route the road around the new river paths. I'm not an engineer but once a river has decided to change path, getting it back to the original path not only takes a lot of work, it could mess with the spawning activity of native fish and other aquatic creatures.

Said differently, what a mess. We were thinking of heading out there again next year. We have been to Yellowstone I think 6 times. I want to see it again before I'm too old to go hiking and experience it on foot. I think we may change next summer plans and maybe head to the Southwest (Zion, Arches, Grand Canon) part of the country instead. It would be a totally different landscape with different wildlife and nature scenes to shoot.

Jeff
 
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Encouraged to see that the Park Service is now saying they may open the northern loop within a few weeks. That will at least give visitors access to the Tower, Roosevelt, Mammoth, and Norris. It doesn't appear like there will be any access out to the Lamar Valley or access to Gardener.
 
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