Fire updates
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A Note To Visitors
We encourage you to explore all that Montana’s Yellowstone Country has to offer, and please recreate responsibly:
- • Know before you go. Plan ahead, and check websites and social media pages for businesses and events, and call before you go.
- • Stay on the trails. Heed road closures, recreation alerts and signs.
- • Pack it in, pack it out. If you brought it in, make sure to take it with you when you go.
- • Practice wildlife safety. Keep your distance from wild animals, and pack bear spray—and know how to use it.
- • Prevent wildfires. Most wildfires are human caused. Watch for signage indicating fire danger levels and never start a fire in dry conditions. If you do start a fire, bring enough water to extinguish it completely—hint: it’s more water than you think.
- • Leave it as you find it. Remember these areas are wild and do your best to leave the places you see undisturbed. Don’t pick up rocks, flowers, or other natural elements for mementos. We have plenty of gift shops for that!
- • Play it safe. Know your limits when it comes to activities and don’t take chances with the weather and outdoor conditions.
- • Love Montana back. Please be kind to workers and locals who call this remarkable place home.
Travel Resources
- • Call 511 for continual updates about weather-related road conditions, road work, commercial vehicle restrictions, road closures, chain requirements and other travel information via the phone or Internet.
- • Road conditions: LINK
- • Flood Resources: LINK
- • Yellowstone National Park: LINK
- • Stillwater County: LINK
- • Carbon County: LINK
- • Park County: LINK
- • Gallatin County: LINK
Recreation Alerts and Restrictions:
- • Custer Gallatin National Forest: LINK
- • Beartooth Ranger District: (406) 446-2103
- • Bozeman Ranger District: (406) 587-6701
- • Gardiner Ranger District: (406) 848-7375
- • Hebgen Lake Ranger District: (406) 823-6961
- • Yellowstone (Livingston) Ranger District: (406) 222-1892
- • Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks: LINK
- • Bureau of Land Management Montana/Dakotas: LINK
- • Montana Department of Transportation: LINK
- • Federal reservation system for recreation sites in the U.S., including camping, lodging, tours, permits and passes: LINK
To sign up for alerts for the following areas, please consider the following resources:
- • Yellowstone National Park: LINK or Text “82190” to 888-777 (an automatic text reply will confirm receipt and provide instructions).
- • Carbon County: LINK
- • Stillwater County: LINK
- • Park County: LINK
Follow local news for additional updates:
Lodging
- If you need alternative lodging options, please visit our page on Places to Stay.
Updates from Yellowstone National Park
New small and remote wildland fire in Yellowstone National Park
Parkwide fire danger is HIGH
- A visitor to Yellowstone National Park spotted the remote Hitching Post Fire about 5.5 miles south of the park’s Northeast Entrance Road and .5 miles east of the Lamar River Trail in Lamar Valley.
- Currently, there are no closures due to the fire.
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