Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-24
YELLOWSTONE PARK
OPEN ON SCHEDULE
WITH ROADS GOOD
Many 5pectacles of Nations
Playground TO- Be Open
to Tourists.

Yellowstone Park, May %, Thou
sands of inquiries regarding touring
conditions in Yellowstone National
park, indicating exceptionally heavy
travel this year, are pouring into the
superintendent office, and prompts
the announcement that the park will be
open on time, despite an unusual long,
cold spring, and that the roads will be
in first class condition for motoring
from the very beginning of the sea
son, according to Superintendent Hor-
ace NJ. Albright.
The park will be open to private
motorists as soon as the passes are
cleared of snow, but travel by rail can
not be accommodated until Jun 20,
when all Of the public utilities of the
park are ready for operations. On that
date it is expected that every road in
the park, with the possible exception
of Mount Washburn road, will be open.
and every effort will be put forth to
make accessible to automobiles this
spectacular highway to the summit OF
Washburn. 1O,1OO feet above the sea.
G%rasshopper Glacier Accessible
The old Cooke City road, leading
from Camp Roosevelt in the direction
of Grasshopper glacier. a road that has
been in disrepair for years on account
of insufficient funds to maintain 1t, Will
be repaired this year and patrolled
throughout the summer Camps at
Cooke City and Goose lake. and good
horses, will make the Grasshopper
glacier easily accessible from camp
Roosevelt. =,
The road around Bunsen Peak. closed
to travel since the admission OF auto,
mobiles to the park, will be reopened
this year in improved condition, and
will make accessible the Gardiner can
Won. second deepest in the park. In
this canyon is Osprey Falls. $50 feet,
one of the parks finest water exhibits.
Saddle Horse Tours
The Yellowstone Park Camps com
pany will conduct four 14-day saddle
horse tours of the trails, which TINS
year will parallel every road IN the
park. These tours will be under the
direction of Tex Holm. famous Cody
guide and horsemaD. Also. there Will
be more saddle horses available at
Mammoth Hot Springs, Old Faithful,
Grand Canyon. and Camp Roosevelt,
than ever before. New side trip trails
will make the scenic SUBMITS of Mount
Everett. Bnnsen Peak, and Sepulchre
Mountain. all neal headquarters. with
in easy reach of the lovers of horse.
back riding. New trails near the Grand
canyon and along its rim will afford
delightful new horseback and walking
trips int hat section of the park.
The National Park service is enlarg-
ing it's public ~autoombile camps at all
points and will build several more this
summer. The new combined ranger
stations and community centers for
campers at Grand Canyon and Old
Faithful have been completed by the
government. and will be ready for use
nj the opening of the season. Another
station will be built this year at Lake
Yellowstone public automobile camp.
According to plans now formed. while
the National Editorial association is
visiting the park in July, the fiftieth
anniversary Of the establishment of the
park will be formally celebrated in
pageant and other appropriate cere-
mony. Yellowstone was the first ma
tional park in the work, and the idea
that its dedication as a national play
ground given to the world in 1872. has
been utilized as a conservation principle
by man. nations.