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Yellowstone flooding rebuild could take years, cost billions

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
and BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
Created in 1872 as the
United States was recov-
ering from the Civil War,
Yellowstone was the first
of the national parks that
came to be referred to as
America’s best idea. Now,
the home to gushing gey-
sers, thundering waterfalls
and some of the country’s
most plentiful and diverse
wildlife is facing its biggest
challenge in decades.
Floodwaters this week
wiped out numerous bridg-
es, washed out miles of
roads and closed the park
as it approached peak
tourist season during its
150th anniversary celebra-
tion. Nearby communities
were swamped and hun-
dreds of homes flooded as
the Yellowstone River and
its tributaries raged.
The scope of the dam-
age is still being tallied by The entrance to Yellowstone National Park, a major tourist attraction, sits closed due to the historic floodwaters on June 15, 2022, in
Yellowstone officials, but Gardiner, Mont.
based on other national Associated Press
park disasters, it could take from the spring thaw until helicopter, the greatest park’s offices in Mammoth of footbridges on trails may
years and cost upwards of the first snowfall. damage seemed to be to Hot Springs. Large sections have been damaged or
$1 billion to rebuild in an Based on what park of- roads, particularly on the of the road were undercut destroyed.
environmentally sensitive ficials have revealed and highway connecting the and washed away as the
landscape where con- Associated Press images park’s north entrance in Gardner River jumped its Continued on Page 2
struction season only runs and video taken from a Gardiner, Montana, to the banks. Perhaps hundreds