Yellowstone National Park – Sheridan Media

Woman Found Deceased Within Yellowstone National Park

May 15, 2023 Kevin Koile

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of death of a woman who was found deceased inside a vehicle near Old Faithful, within Yellowstone National Park. According to a media release, sometime Saturday evening (May 13th), Park Rangers responded to an incident on Craig Pass, which is about 3 miles…

Yellowstone National Park South Entrance To Open For Summer 2023 Season

May 12, 2023 Kevin Koile

The last of the five entrances to the Nation’s First National Park will soon open to motor vehicle traffic. The south entrance to Yellowstone National Park is scheduled to open Friday, May 12th as well as every road on the south side of the park that has not yet opened.…

Yellowstone National Park East Entrance Set To Open For 2023 Summer Season

May 4, 2023 Kevin Koile

The entrance of Yellowstone National Park that’s closest to Sheridan is opening up to motor vehicle traffic. The East Entrance to the park and the road from that point to Fishing Bridge, is scheduled to open on Friday (May 5th), weather permitting. Other roads scheduled to open include from Canyon…

West Side Of Yellowstone NP To Open To Motor Vehicle Traffic For 2023 Season

April 19, 2023 Kevin Koile

The spring and summer traveling season in the nation’s first national park is about to begin. The west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, as well as two of the main roads on the west side of the park, are scheduled to open to motor vehicle traffic on Friday, April 21st…

Hotel Inside Yellowstone NP Won’t Open In Time For Start Of 2023 Motorist Traveling Season

April 13, 2023 News Release

Yellowstone National Park’s Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel spring 2023 opening has been delayed until the wastewater treatment system in the area is completed and operational. Due to the heavy winter and difficult construction conditions, the new system will not be operational by April 28th as originally planned, which was the…

Yellowstone NP Announces Summer 2023 Road Construction Plans

March 27, 2023 News Release

There will be four major road improvement projects in Yellowstone National Park in 2023. All four projects will cause delays (Lewis River Bridge, Old Faithful to West Thumb, Yellowstone River Bridge and Northeast Entrance Road). It’s important that visitors plan accordingly for these delays located along the park’s southern and…

Yellowstone NP Receives Funding For Bridge Replacement In NE Area Of Park

March 24, 2023 News Release

Yellowstone National Park recently awarded an approximately $118 million construction contract to replace the structurally deficient Yellowstone River Bridge on the Northeast Entrance Road near Tower Junction. Funded by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), this project will preserve year-round public access to and from the park’s Northeast Entrance and…

Yellowstone NP Closing Winter Roads To Prepare For 2023 Summer Traveling Season

March 8, 2023 Kevin Koile

The snow season is about to end inside the nation’s first national park. Snowplow crews within Yellowstone National Park have closed almost every road in the north section of the park to snowmobile and snow coach traffic. The roads that connect the north to the northeast entrance to the park…

Bears Within Yellowstone National Park Starting To Emerge For 2023 Season

March 8, 2023 News Release

It’s not springtime in Wyoming just yet, but some residents of the forest are not waiting much longer. While on a radio telemetry flight on Tuesday, March 7th, a Yellowstone National Park Wildlife Biologist observed the first grizzly bear of this year emerge from hibernation. The adult bear, estimated at…

Yellowstone National Park Releases 2023 State of the Park Report

March 1, 2023 Ron Richter

Yellowstone National Park released its 2023 State of the Park report Wednesday. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details. The report provides updates in each of the park’s strategic priorities and spotlights the progress made by the park’s teams and partners over the past two years. The report highlights the…

Yellowstone National Park Visitor Numbers For 2022 Down 32% Compared To 2021

March 1, 2023 Kevin Koile

As a result of the historic flooding back in June, the final recreational visitor numbers last year at Yellowstone National Park, were the lowest they’ve been in 10 years. The Park reports there were 3.29 million recreational visits in 2022, which is down 32% compared to the record number of…

Thirteen Bison Dead Or Euthanized After Being Hit By Vehicles Near Yellowstone NP

December 30, 2022 AP News

Just over a dozen bison were killed or had to be euthanized after they were struck by vehicles on U.S. Highway 191 just north of the town of West Yellowstone, Montana, which is by the western entrance to Yellowstone National Park, officials said. West Yellowstone Police Chief Mike Gavagan said…

Yellowstone National Park To Open For Winter 2022-23 Season

December 13, 2022 Kevin Koile

Snow travelers are about to get their chance to travel and check out the snowy scenery in the nation’s first national park. At 8am on Thursday (December 15th), the East, South and West entrances to Yellowstone National Park will open to snowmobile and snow coach travel for the winter 2022-2023…

Human Foot Found In Yellowstone NP Geyser Identified

November 17, 2022 News Release

Yellowstone National Park announced that the human foot found in Abyss Pool, located in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, belonged to Il Hun Ro, a 70-year-old male from Los Angeles, California. Yellowstone law enforcement officers received the positive identification based on DNA analysis in the last three weeks and notified…

Yellowstone NP October 2022 Visitor Number Down But Up Compared To Pre-Pandemic

November 16, 2022 Kevin Koile

The trend of decreasing visitor numbers at Yellowstone National Park continued this past October, but there was a small sign of hope as the North and Northeast Entrances were reopened. The park reports there were 232,117 recreational visits in October 2022. That’s down 27% compared to October 2021 (316,662), but…