, 1925-06-10

uiueT 10 oS.f miles,
Livingston to Fallon, 337 miles;
Fallon to Ortonville. 53S miles;
Gardiner to Ortonville. 934 miles;
Gardiner to Minneapolis, 1135 miles;
Gardiner to Chicago. 1926 miles;
Gardiner to Cleveland, 2OO2 miles;
Gardiner to Buffalo, 2191 miles;
Gardiner to Albany, 249O miles;
Gardiner to Boston, 257S miles.
The distances coming from west are
Seattle to Gardiner, by Butte, 9S7
miles; by Helena, 544 miles; Fall
Ion to Cody, 402 miles; Billings to
Cody. 1872 miles. The Yellowstone
Trail is reported to be in good con-
dition.
The National Parks highway is a
more northern route. leaving the
Yellowstone Trail at Greenville, Min
nesota, going directly to Moorhead,
Mimi, and then west across North
Dakota by way of jamestown, Bis
mark and Medore to Glendive, Mont.
From Glendive the National Parks
highway runs down to Fallon, Mon
tana, where it joins the Yellowstone
Trail, traversing west to Spokane
and on to Reardon, Wilbur, Water
Vile and Wenatchee. From Wen
atchee it leads southwest and joins
the Yellowstone Trail twelve miles
east of Gle Elum. Distances: Or
tonville to Moorhead, 121 miles;
Moorhead to Bismark to Glendive,
331. miles; Glendive to Fallon, 90
miles; Ortonville t. Gardiner, the
northern entrance to. Yellowstone
park. by way of the National Parks
highway, 1918 miles. Seattle to
Spokane by this route is 40 miles,
and from Seattle. to Gardiner by the
National Parks highway is 915 miles
by way of Butte, and 954 miles by
way of Helena. For distances east
of Ortonville, Minnesota, see those
listed under Yellowstone Trail.
The north entrance routes be-
tween Yellowstone park and Gla-
cier Park are:
The Observation-Disclosures Bee Line
highway (part of the Park to Park
highway via Choteau, Great Falls.
White Sulphur Springs and Living
ingston, Mont. Distance: Gardiner
to Glacier Park, 305 miles.
The Geysers to Glaciers Trail by
Wolf Creek canyon, Helena, Towns
end, Bozeman and Livingston. Dis
lance: Gardiner to Glacier park, 463
miles.
The Flathead Valley route via
K~alispell. Missoula, Butte, Bozeman
and Livingston. Distance: Bolton,
west entrance to Glacier. park. to
Gardiner, north entrance to Yellow
stone park, sos miles.
Western Entrance Roads
1t is the concensus of opinion OF
those who have travelled the roaj
from Salt Lake City to the ives,
entrance Of Yellowstone park that
no finer highway leading to the ma.
tional parks is in existence today
The Victory and Lincoln highways
are the main arteries which meet
at Salt Lake City, both being re.
sponsible for a great share of the
national tourist travel into Yellow
stone park each year. The main
highway leads in a northerly direc.
ton from Salt Lake City to Ogder
to Pocatello, Blackfoot, Idaho Falls
81 AnlllOHy, tlC. THROUGHOUT lIs
entire length it is either gravelet
and well surfaced or paved, anC
passes through one of the fines
farming districts of the western
country, broken often by canyons
of beauty and stream laden with
trout.
San Francisco is the starting point
Inf tho Uiotarr anl fpno1n hirh
ways. Both these transcontinenta
highways lead through the Sierra
Nevada mountains. With the com
lpletion of the Wendover cutoff, the
official opening date being June 10
northern California tourists will
have two fine highways leading into
Salt Lake City and on to Yellow
stone National park. The Zion Park
highway leading from southern Cal
Iifornia is open the year round, and
is reported to be in good condition
Distances: Salt Lake City to West
Yellowstone, $40 miles; San Fran
cisco to Salt Lake City via the Lin.
coin highway, 857 miles; a Fran
cisco to West Yellowstone via the
Victory highway, 1143 miles. B,
branching at Wells to WendoveI
to Grantsville to Salt Lake City ant
then north to West Yellowstone
1175 miles; Los Angeles to Sal
Lake City, 1882 miles.
2 The road from Bozeman, paral
Icing the West Gallatin river, t,
the northwest entrance of the park
e may also be termed a west e~ntranc,
road, since it goes on to the ives
/, entrance road at West Yellowston
after traversing the highway in an
| out of the park for a number o
} miles. More than 100000 ha