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Olivia Weitz

Attendance at Yellowstone National Park plummets after road washouts in June

Old Gardiner Road improvement at Yellowstone National Park on July 20, 2022. (Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service)

GARDINER, Mont. — Tourism at Yellowstone National Park is down about 40% this summer after devastating floods wiped out roads in and around the park in June. Towns at two of the park's five entrances were completely cut off from it.

The raging flood waters took out big sections of paved roads in and near the park, and now the North Entrance from the neighboring town of Gardiner, Mont., is closed. It's expected to stay that way for at least a couple of years.

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