Tourism at Yellowstone National Park is down about 40% this summer after devastating floods wiped out roads in and around the park in June — cutting off the economic lifeblood for two towns.
GARDINER, Mont. — Tourism at Yellowstone National Park is down about 40% this summer after devastating floods wiped out roads in and around the park in June. Towns at two of the park's five entrances were completely cut off from it.
About 900 people live in Gardiner, but each summer the town straddling the Yellowstone River is crowded with thousands of visitors staying in hotels and patronizing businesses that rely almost exclusively on park visitors. A moose nestled among some willows near a creek, and Harry Buis from the Netherlands looked through binoculars at a black bear. He and son Jean Leon were seeing Yellowstone for the first time.Jean Leon and his father, Harry Buis, get a closer look at wolf pups basking in the sun as they wake up to morning sunshine in Yellowstone's Hayden Valley.
"And with the whitewater rafting and the trips into the park, I don't think you miss out on anything," she said."We don't feel like we missed out on anything besides the driving, and I'm glad."
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