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Yellowstone transitioning to the cold
Y E L L O W S T O N E NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Just as the leaves are turning in lower elevations, the forests and underbrush in Yellowstone is bright with fall colors. It's just one sign the season is changing in the park.
Many park campgrounds, general stores, gift shops and lodging, have already closed for the season.
While the fate of snowmobile and snowcoach travel this winter remains up in the air due to a court ruling that threw out a proposed winter plan, the park is slowly moving toward a Nov. 3 closing for the season.
Most services at Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs stay open into October.
At Mammoth, the Yellowstone General Store, clinic, campground and Albright Visitor Center are open all year. Mammoth is accessed by the only road open to year-round travel in the park by wheeled vehicles, the highway from Gardiner to the Northeastern Entrance near Cooke City, Mont.
As anyone who has been caught in a snowstorm in the spring or fall can attest, winter weather conditions can temporarily close some park roads at any time.
To find out information on road conditions call (307) 344-2117.
The first park road to close this fall is the road between Tower Fall and Canyon over Dunraven Pass. It and the Park Service-maintained Beartooth Highway from Long Lake to the summit at the Montana-Wyoming state line, are set to close for the season at 8 a.m. Oct. 14.
All other interior park roads close for the season at 8 a.m. Nov. 3, in preparation for winter.
Xanterra Parks and Resorts provides lodging, food service, and guided winter recreation opportunities inside Yellowstone National Park, and despite the uncertainty about oversnow travel inside the park this winter, the company is taking reservations for lodging at Old Faithful Snow Lodge and cabins.
In a news release about the changing of the season, the Park Service noted that communities near and on the way to Yell are open round, w b u s i n e s s e offering a range of fall and w i n t e r r e c r e - a t i o n oppor tunities.
O n c e the park roads close Nov. 3, sno will be allo to accumul them until the park is ready to groom the roads for oversnow travel, assuming some type of temporary winter travel plan can be adopted. The park typically opens for oversnow travel, if there is enough snow, in mid-December.
jedlefsen@uvsj.com
Y E L L O W S T O N E NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Just as the leaves are turning in lower elevations, the forests and underbrush in Yellowstone is bright with fall colors. It's just one sign the season is changing in the park.
Many park campgrounds, general stores, gift shops and lodging, have already closed for the season.
While the fate of snowmobile and snowcoach travel this winter remains up in the air due to a court ruling that threw out a proposed winter plan, the park is slowly moving toward a Nov. 3 closing for the season.
Most services at Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs stay open into October.
At Mammoth, the Yellowstone General Store, clinic, campground and Albright Visitor Center are open all year. Mammoth is accessed by the only road open to year-round travel in the park by wheeled vehicles, the highway from Gardiner to the Northeastern Entrance near Cooke City, Mont.
As anyone who has been caught in a snowstorm in the spring or fall can attest, winter weather conditions can temporarily close some park roads at any time.
To find out information on road conditions call (307) 344-2117.
The first park road to close this fall is the road between Tower Fall and Canyon over Dunraven Pass. It and the Park Service-maintained Beartooth Highway from Long Lake to the summit at the Montana-Wyoming state line, are set to close for the season at 8 a.m. Oct. 14.
All other interior park roads close for the season at 8 a.m. Nov. 3, in preparation for winter.
Xanterra Parks and Resorts provides lodging, food service, and guided winter recreation opportunities inside Yellowstone National Park, and despite the uncertainty about oversnow travel inside the park this winter, the company is taking reservations for lodging at Old Faithful Snow Lodge and cabins.
In a news release about the changing of the season, the Park Service noted that communities near and on the way to Yell are open round, w b u s i n e s s e offering a range of fall and w i n t e r r e c r e - a t i o n oppor tunities.
O n c e the park roads close Nov. 3, sno will be allo to accumul them until the park is ready to groom the roads for oversnow travel, assuming some type of temporary winter travel plan can be adopted. The park typically opens for oversnow travel, if there is enough snow, in mid-December.
jedlefsen@uvsj.com
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