Yellowstone NP Closing Winter Roads To Prepare For 2025 Summer Traveling Season

The snow travel season within Yellowstone National Park is nearing its end and the park will soon prepare for the return of regular motor vehicle traffic.

The road from Mammoth Hot Springs to Norris will close to snowmobile and snow coach traffic on Sunday (March 2nd), and three other roads will close on Tuesday (March 4th).

Those roads are from Norris to Madison, Norris to Canyon Village and from Canyon Village to the Washburn Hot Springs Overlook.

The road from Canyon Village to Fishing Bridge will close on Sunday, March 9th, and all other groomed roads, including the West, South and East Entrances to the park will close on March 15th.

Once closed, snowplow crews will start clearing snow off of those highways.

The roads connecting the North to the Northeast entrances of the park remain open year round.

The Park is scheduled to open the west entrance, as well as roads from Mammoth Hot Springs to Old Faithful and from Norris Junction to Canyon Village to motor vehicle traffic on April 18th.

The East entrance to Fishing Bridge and from Fishing Bridge to both Lake Village and Canyon Village is scheduled to open on May 2nd and the South entrance on May 9th.

Dunraven Pass is scheduled to open on May 23rd.