Claudia Dominguez and Sara Smart, CNN • Updated 13th June 2022

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/yellowstone-national-park-entrances-closed-flooding/index.html

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(CNN) —

Yellowstone National Park announced Monday all entrances are temporarily closed due to “extremely hazardous conditions” caused by “unprecedented” rainfall and flooding.

“Effective immediately, all entrances to Yellowstone National Park are temporarily CLOSED due to substantial flooding, rockslides and mudslides on roadways from recent unprecedented amounts of rainfall and flooding,” the park said in aFacebook post.

No inbound traffic is allowed “until the conditions stabilize and the park can assess damage to roads and bridges,” the post added. The North, Northeast, West, South and East entrances are all closed.

The park posted asituation updateon its website Monday afternoon saying that no inbound visitor traffic would be allowed on Tuesday or Wednesday “at a minimum.”

“Our first priority has been to evacuate the northern section of the park where we have multiple road and bridge…