Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday, cutting off electricity and forcing visitors to evacuate parts of the park during peak tourist season.
Some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the park and Yellowstone's gateway communities in southern Montana. National Park Service photos of northern Yellowstone showed a landslide, a bridge washed out over a creek, and roads badly undercut by churning floodwaters of the Gardner and Lamar rivers.
In this photo provided by the National Park Service, is high water in the Gardiner River along the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Montana, that washed out part of a road on Monday, June 13, 2022. At a cabin in Gardiner, Parker Manning of Terra Haute, Indiana, got an up-close view of the water rising and the river bank sloughing off in the raging Yellowstone River floodwaters just outside his door.
Floodwaters inundated a street in Red Lodge, a Montana town of 2,100 that's a popular jumping-off point for a scenic, winding route into the Yellowstone high country. Twenty-five miles to the northeast, in Joliet, Kristan Apodaca wiped away tears as she stood across the street from a washed-out bridge, The log cabin that belonged to her grandmother, who died in March, flooded, as did the park where Apodaca's husband proposed.
But the flooding affected the rest of the park, too, with park officials warning of yet higher flooding and potential problems with water supplies and wastewater systems at developed areas. The rains hit right as summer tourist season was ramping up. June, at the onset of an annual wave of over 3 million visitors that doesn't abate until fall, is one of Yellowstone's busiest months.
"It's a lot of rain, but the flooding wouldn't have been anything like this if we didn't have so much snow," said Cory Mottice, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Billings, Montana."This is flooding that we've just never seen in our lifetimes before."In south-central Montana, flooding on the Stillwater River stranded 68 people at a campground.
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