Tag Archives: West Thumb

If Yellowstone’s Grant Village feels relatively new to you, get ready for a shock.

It will take a little planning to make it around Yellowstone National Park this fall, as today’s closure of the road between Old Faithful and the West Thumb and Grant Village areas means extra hours of driving time.

The summer season is winding down, which means the arrival of another seasonal presence in Yellowstone: road construction.

The Yellowstone South Entrance is now open for the 2013 season, allowing visitors to navigate between Grand Teton National Park and Jackson, Wy., to Grant Village, West Thumb Junction and on to Fishing Bridge and across Craig Pass to Old Faithful.

We had snow delay the start of the Yellowstone National Park spring season, and now it threatens the fall as well, as the South Entrance, the Beartooth Pass and Craig Pass are closed because of unsafe driving conditions.

With several road closures -- including the road between Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower Junction due to rockslide-- on the traditional start of the real summer season in Yellowstone National Park, some planning is in order to avoid closed roads and rough patches.

The South Entrance to Yellowstone National Park, a crucial link between Old Faithful, Grand Teton National Park and the rest of the Park, opens Friday at 8 a.m.

There's always a big challenge every summer in Yellowstone National Park: planning around the realities of road construction. Here's a glimpse at what to expect this summer.

Mother Nature came to the rescue and blanketed parts of Yellowstone National Park with almost two feet of new snow, clearing the way for Park personnel to officially open the Park for the winter season today.

One of the joys of wandering through Yellowstone National Park is stumbling across one of its many unique gems. True, pools, basins, mud volcanoes, and geysers are everywhere in the park. They are what helped make Yellowstone America’s first National Park. In the next few weeks we’ll be taking inside looks at gems found not that far off the beaten path. Today we’ll look at one basin that is often overlooked when stacked against all the bigger, seemingly more active basins: West Thumb Basin.