“Saw one crazy single kayaker coming down through, which was kind of insane.” “We started seeing entire trees floating down the river, debris,” Manning told The Associated Press. ![]() The flooding cut off road access to Gardiner, Montana, a town of about 900 people near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Gardner rivers, just outside Yellowstone’s busy North Entrance.Īt a cabin in Gardiner, visitor Parker Manning of Terra Haute, Indiana, got an up-close view of the water rising and the river bank sloughing off in the raging Yellowstone River floodwaters just outside his door. National Park Service via AP A home in Yellowstone National Park is being threatened due to floods. High waters in the Gardiner River along Yellowstone National Park’s north entrance wash out part of a road on Monday. National Park Service photos of northern Yellowstone showed a landslide, a bridge washed out over a creek, and roads badly undercut by churning floodwaters of the Gardner and Lamar rivers. Authorities also said they would be assessing a potential “loss of homes and structures” in Montana’s Stillwater County.Įlsewhere, some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the Yellowstone and the park’s gateway communities in southern Montana. There were no immediate reports of injuries, though dozens of stranded campers had to be rescued by raft in south-central Montana. 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.Īll entrances to Yellowstone were closed due to the deluge, caused by heavy rains and melting snowpack, while park officials ushered tourists out of the most affected areas. Two hikers injured in separate grizzly bear, bison attacks near Yellowstone Lightning bolt outside Yellowstone National Park strikes tent, killing camper ![]() ‘They will kill you’: Tourists warned to move away from bison in Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park employee finds foot floating in hot spring
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