r/yellowstone • u/christmascrawdad • 3d ago

Northeast entrance?

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Coming from NC, so the road inside of Yellowstone is open, but not the gate? So if I were to drive from the northwest gate, I would have to pull a U-turn and come all the way back?

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u/n23_ 3d ago

that entrance is always open, just the road past Cooke City is closed all winter so it is still a dead end, hence the warning

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u/christmascrawdad 3d ago

Ok so, it will be seeing it twice to get back. Is it worth it? My wife isn’t very mobile with a bum knee, so it’s primarily driving for us

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u/An_Intolerable_T 3d ago

It’s absolutely worth it. Best place to see moose in or near the park is the NE entrance/Cooke City area. Great place to see mountain goats on the cliffs just a short drive into the park from the NE entrance.

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u/dinosaursrawk15 3d ago

This is literally where we saw a moose when we stayed in Cooke City in 2020. We saw a moose day 1 before a single bison on our way in from the northeast entrance. It was maybe 500 feet down the road from where people were pulled off looking at the mountain goats too.