The National Park Service said that the park will reopen its Northeast Entrance Road to vehicular traffic on Saturday, four months after it was closed due to flooding.
Five sections of the road were damaged in June when four days of record rain and melting snow caused flooding and mud slides that tore out bridges and changed the course of rivers. The governor of Montana made a statewide disaster declaration.
The northern reaches of the oldest national park in the US were the hardest hit.
The northeast entrance, an important gateway to the park, will be reopened, according to the park's leader. Almost all of the park's roads are open now that the work has been completed.
The National Park Service, the Federal Highway Administration and Oftedal Construction, Inc. worked together to complete the task in a short period of time.
There is a section of road that needs to be paved, according to the Park Service. Traffic will be allowed in the area, but the Park Service warned of possible delays.
There are four miles of paving and 5,000 feet of guardrail still to be installed on Old Gardiner Road. Wyo. is located in the state of Wyoming. The park service said the road is expected to open in November. A small section of Lamar Canyon will remain a paved, single-lane road through the winter.
In the northwest corner of Wyoming, there are more than two million acres of wilderness and geysers that draw millions of visitors each year.
More than five million people visited the park in the year 2020. The northeast entrance of the park was closed just as the tourism season was heating up.
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