This early summer flood was the latest in a series of dynamic events that have shaped Gardiner over the past two centuries. “By the time I woke up, the road didn’t exist anymore.” Sunday night,” Dawson Killen, a tourist from Texas who found herself stranded in Gardiner, told ABC FOX Montana. “The road that I took from Yellowstone Park to, I drove on it probably 10:30 p.m. Floodwaters cut off Gardiner’s almost 900 residents from both Livingston and the park’s headquarters at Mammoth Hot Springs, leaving them without power and drinkable water for several days. The extreme weather took a heavy toll on the town of Gardiner, Montana, which sits at the confluence of the Gardner (more on the spelling discrepancy later) and Yellowstone rivers. More info: /S5ysi4wf8a- Yellowstone National Park June 13, 2022
We will continue to communicate about this hazardous situation as more information is available. On Monday, Yellowstone’s superintendent, Cam Sholly, announced the closure of all five of Yellowstone’s inbound entrances and the evacuation of most tourists from the area.Ĭurrent conditions of Yellowstone’s North Entrance Road through the Gardner Canyon between Gardiner, Montana, and Mammoth Hot Springs. Choked with debris, the floodwaters joined the Yellowstone River at the foot of the canyon the surge pushed on more than 50 miles north, inundating Yankee Jim Canyon, Paradise Valley and the town of Livingston.Ĭonditions were similar across the park, as creeks and waterways rose to record-breaking levels, covering roadways and sweeping away bridges. By Monday, the Gardner River-whose headwaters are on the west side of the park, in the Gallatin Mountains-was a muddy, rushing torrent.Īs it churned down the Gardner Canyon below Mammoth Hot Springs, the river took chunks of the adjacent roadway along with it. The rivers and creeks were already running high, filled with melting snow from an above-average snowpack. Then a weekend storm intensified quickly, dropping a month’s worth of precipitation on the park in little more than a day. It had been an unusually warm early June in Yellowstone National Park, with temperatures in the 70s.
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