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The North Entrance Road was the first major road in the park, necessary to join the U.S. Army station at Fort Yellowstone to the Northern Pacific Railroad station at Gardiner. The road includes the Roosevelt Arch at the northern boundary of the park and winds through rolling terrain before crossing the Gardner River and joining the Grand Loop ...
The CDP is in the West Yellowstone K-12 school district. [18] The town has one school, the West Yellowstone School, serving kindergarten through 12th grade. [19] West Yellowstone High School is a class C school [20] (fewer than 108 students) which helps determine athletic competitions. They are known as the Wolverines.
The West Yellowstone Oregon Shortline Terminus Historic District is a historic district in West Yellowstone, Montana that is ten acres in size and includes 16 structures and buildings. The historic district was built around the terminus of a spur of the Oregon Short Line Railroad , which ran from Idaho Falls, Idaho to West Yellowstone. [ 1 ]
Unofficially, Google Maps marks the start of the western part of US 20, along with US 191 and US 287, at the state line near West Yellowstone, Montana. The road parallels the Madison River until a junction with US 89. [4] The three routes then turn south along US 89 (Grand Loop Road), paralleling the Firehole River.
U.S. Route 20 (US 20) is a transcontinental east–west U.S. Highway that travels between Newport, Oregon, and Boston, Massachusetts.It passes through southern Montana for approximately 10 miles (16 km), connecting Targhee Pass at the Idaho state line to the town of West Yellowstone and the West Entrance of Yellowstone National Park near the Wyoming border.
A few blocks into West Yellowstone, US 20 leaves the US 191 / US 287 concurrency and heads west towards the Targhee Pass and Idaho. The highway heads north, running concurrently with US 191 for 8 miles (13 km) before it heads west for 22 miles (35 km), passing along the north shores of Hebgen Lake and Earthquake Lake , to Montana Highway 87 (MT ...
Grant Village lodging in 1987. By 1960 there was a divergence of opinion on the project's design: the primary concessioner, the Yellowstone Park Company, wanted a compact layout, while the Park Service's Western Office of Design desired a dispersed arrangement. Financial difficulties left the Yellowstone Park Company unable to exert much influence.
The Roosevelt Lodge Historic District comprises the area around the Roosevelt Lodge in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, near Tower Junction.The district includes 143 buildings ranging in size from cabins to the Lodge, built beginning in 1919.