, 1922-08-17
new APPROACHES
TO YELLOWSTONE
OFFICIAL BULLETIN ISSUED BY nat.
IONAL PARK SERVICE GIVES
USEFUL INFORMATION

The following is taken from an Of
fetal bulletin of the national park
service of the department of h in
terror, which Is the first complete
and authentic resume Of automobile
approaches to Yellowstone park. The
bulletin gives complete data concern
ing the roads which reach the park
from all four points Of the compass
but that part relating to the north
and west entrance Is omitted In this
article for the reason that an over
whelming majority OF those desiring
to visit the park from this section
would find little need for such in
formation, as nearly all would natur-
ally take the south entrance. or pos
sibly the east entrance.
The bulletin in question reads in
part:
"If n doubts hat all summer
roads lead to Yellowstone National
Park. all one has to do Is to stand
at any one OF the four entrances to
the park and read automobile
licenses by the score from every state
in the Union.
July motor travel to the Park
and rail travel as well-has out
stripped all previous records in the
Parks history and there is every
indication hat during August. the
height of the Yellowstone season,
there will be an unprecedented mi
grafton OF "highway fans" to the
natural wonderland atop of the
Rockies. Up to the end Of July. a
total OF $1,000 people came to the
Yellowstone. $4,000 Of them by
automobile. while the railroad total
for the season was 1850. The
total travel is 5000 more than
travel OF the same date last year.
Delights of the Open Road
Modern gypsying-with the COM
Portable motor replacing the lumber
ing. rickety camp wagon would
seem to be the coming national sum-
mer pastime. II it does not head the
list in popularity already. Each year
and each month brings thousands of
new highway devotees to the re-
ligion of outdoors. as the home-going
auto tourists spread their stories Of
the delights and adventures of the
open road.
Even transcontinental motoring
has ceased to be much Of a novelty, |
so numerous are the highway tour
lists from the Atlantic states. but so
far as motor travel to the Yellow
stone is concerned the western, and
particularly the Pacific states. con-
tinue to be far in the lead, with
hundreds of motorists coming to the
Park daily from California, Oregon
and Washington. There Is also heavy
travel from all of the Rocky noun
tain states and from the Middle
West.
"Competition for the tourist travel
among the states Immediately sur
rounding the Yellowstone makes for
continuous highway improvement and
stimulates the opening Of new roads |
and the advertising of the attractions
Of all the great mountain reaches.
"Several new approaches to the
Yellowstone have been opened this
year and reports of motorists coming
to the Park are uniformly to the eff
feet hat road conditions are good.
Barring the inevitable bad
stretches" here and there. one is
all the way to the Park from what
ever point of the compass he may
start.
1.-THE principal additions to what
may be termed the Yellowstone sys-
tenn of highways - the network of
roads c%entering in the Park - are
the two new roads from Southern
Wyoming. Both roads traverse
country heretofore almost untouched
by automobile travel and destined to
become famous throughout the ma
ton for the splendor Of the scenery
they reveal to the highway voyager.
There are two main approach
roads to Yellowstone Park from the
south. as follows:
/. The Rocky Mountain Highway.
leading from Denver through south
ern Wyoming to Rawlins. thence to
Lander. thence up the Wind River
through the Shoshone Indian Reser-
walton, to the headwaters OF the
Wind, above Dubois. past Brooks
Lake - a marvelously beautiful
sheet Of water near the Continent
Divide - thence owe Two-Gwo Tee
Pass and down to Jackson Lake.
this road for the accommodations Of
visitors - one at Brooks Lake.
called "Two-Gwo-Tee Inn." and one
on Jackson Lake. near Moran. called
"Ameritti Lodge" This route to the
Park was dedicated with elaborate
ceremonies on August 20. 1921.
2. The other route leading to the
southern entrance Is the Hoback
Canyon Road. formally dedicated and
opened to the public on July 18th of
this year. This road leaves the Lin
coin Highway at Rock Springs and
leads northward to the headways of
the Green River. thence through
some wonderful canyons to the
Jackson Hole. 1t %traverses the en-
tire length of h Jackson Hole to
the southern entrance Of the Park,
While this road will be undergoing
further improvements this veal it Is
available for cars not too heavily
loaded. and by next year will be in
the best of condition for all types OF
motor vehiches. 1t is also possible tC
reach this highway from Kemmerer
Wyoming.