The Grand Yellowstone Trip of 2022

In June of 2022, I and My family decided to take an early summer trip to Yellowstone National Park almost immediately after summer break began:

On June 13th severe rainfall caused the Soda Butte Creek, Gardner River, and the Yellowstone River to experience significant flooding causing damage to park infrastructure and causing many people to be evacuated by air specifically people in the Mammoth Hot Spring area, overall Yellowstone received around 7.5-9.5 inches of rainfall and melted snow within only 24 hours.

The North Entrance Road was the most affected with multiple sections receiving severe damage from the flood forcing Park Services to turn part of the Gardiner Road into a temporary entrance road. However, two years later it appears it has now been deemed unrepairable turning the temporary road into the new permanent entrance road. Mammoth was also heavily affected with their entire wastewater system being destroyed causing a temporary replacement to be made. the Mammoth wastewater system was not fully repaired until July of 2023.

The North Entrance Road was not the only one affected however, the Northeast Entrance Road was also damaged but not as much and was fully repaired by October of 2022.

Yellowstone was not the only place affected by the flood however, towns and cities along the bank of the Yellowstone River were also heavily affected, for example, floodwaters washed away the historic Carbella Bridge near Gardiner, the Rock Creek tributary flooded Red Lodge in Montana, and sadly a 43-year-old man was killed in Flathead River during the flood due to a rafting accident after high flood waters and debris made the environment dangerous. Overall the flood caused $23 million worth of damages in Montana and, well estimates are still out, cost the Yellowstone National Park Service nearly a billion dollars. for more information, you can visit the National Park Service website  here 

Overall this trip to Yellowstone will stand among all of our trips to Yellowstone for many reasons be it seeing Steamboat, the not-so-good food from the chuckwagon, or even almost getting flooded in Yellowstone. It is to be said that My family will remember this trip for many years.

As a part of this story map, I also made a 3D copy of one of my favorite places in Yellowstone the Yellowstone Canyon that can be 3D printed. Be aware that it has a 1.5 terrain exaggeration to make the canyon more visible.

I have also made a decorative display for it as well.

Images were gathered from online sources like the Google Images search engine

Story Map was created using  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/