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Yellowstone National Park segment (unofficial designation) US 89 travels concurrently from the park's South Entrance to north-northwest of West Thumb. US 287 travels concurrently from the park's South Entrance to the park's West Entrance. US 14 / US 16 / US 20 in West Thumb. US 20/US 191 travels concurrently to the park's West Entrance.
The original US 287 only traveled from Denver past the Wyoming state line in 1935. In 1940, US 287 was expanded past the Oklahoma state line (to Port Arthur, Texas ), replacing US 285. After a head-on crash on the highway in 2001, there were people lobbying for a widening of US 287 at the Wyoming state line.
When US 287 was first commissioned in 1939, it extended only from the south entrance of Yellowstone National Park to Denver, Colorado. The route was extended southward to the Gulf Coast at Port Arthur, Texas in 1940, and northward into Montana to US 89 at Choteau, Montana in 1965.
Yellowstone National Park: −2.1: −3.4: West Entrance Road: Continuation into Wyoming; US 20 resumes at Yellowstone National Park's East Entrance; US 191/US 287 resume at the park's South Entrance: 0.000: 0.000: Yellowstone National Park West Entrance: Southern end of state maintenance of US 20/US 191/US 287 concurrency: West Yellowstone: 0. ...
Some commercially produced maps show US 287 going through Yellowstone National Park; however, it officially has a gap inside the park and resumes in Wyoming at the South Entrance, concurrent with US 89 and US 191. A few blocks into West Yellowstone, US 20 leaves the US 191 / US 287 concurrency and heads west towards the Targhee Pass and Idaho.
U.S. Route 191, in Yellowstone National Park. Pacific or Gulf of Mexico drainage. Pacific or Gulf of Mexico drainage. 44°2′28″N 110°10′3″W / 44.04111°N 110.16750°W / 44.04111; -110