YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — A short section of Yellowstone National Park’s (YNP) Northeast Entrance Road in Lamar Canyon, between Tower Junction and Lamar Valley, will temporarily close from 7 to 9 p.m. on June 5, 7, 8, 12, 14 and 15.
The road closure will allow construction crews to conduct safe blasting operations.
According to a press release from YNP, during the 2022 historic flood high water eroded the slope below this section of road rendering it unsafe for use. To repair the damage, crews cut a temporary one-lane road into the hillside. Crews will blast further into the hillside this month to create a new two-lane road, which will be more resilient and able to withstand the effects of erosion and future flooding.
Once complete, the existing one-lane road will be removed and rehabilitated.
