can you run threw yellow stone?

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  1. Bigchevy

    Bigchevy Light Load Member

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    had a load heading up to Montana from Denver, the company told me to run threw yellow stone, got all the way up their to be told the road was closed for winter and had to go threw Idaho, 50 miles in the direction I just came from, also noticed their was a toll booth, my question is can I run threw their when the road is open? and how much is the toll to do so? I run a 48 foot flat with spread axle, didn't think about asking when I was up that way and according to my atlas I can and according to my GPS I cant, has anyone ran threw their? is their parking for the night?
     
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  3. joseph1135

    joseph1135 Papa Murphy

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    Yup. Pretty ride too.
     
  4. mtoo

    mtoo Road Train Member

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    You can run thru West Yellowstone Mt. on US191. You cannot take a commercial truck into or thru Yellowstone National Park. There are no toll booths, what you must be looking at is the entrance into the park. You cannot go thru the park.
     
  5. h11way

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    I heard they rent snow mobiles in west yellowstone.
     
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  6. mtoo

    mtoo Road Train Member

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    Yes they do, and the park is beautiful on a snow machine.
     
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  7. Pound Puppy

    Pound Puppy Heavy Load Member

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    I had heard you can bobtail in to the park in season. Not sure what truth is behind that.
     
  8. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    you might be able to bobtiail. but if you run along the east side of the park. there are signs everywhere that say no trucks.

    us 191 from idaho to montana is the only route allowed. and i wouldn't even consider that an actual part of the park. other then the town called west yellowstone. the signs say some other national forest.

    i don't have my atlas with me at the moment. but i could swear the atlas also says not allowed.

    even the websight truckmiles.com will route you around.

    there's a wyoming town. that sends sand to reno area. and parts around. becuase of the park. you have to take the secondaries down to the 80 and over to reno.

    when brokers plan loads though. they pay for miles THROUGH the park. and not the 150 miles extra. my first OTR company paid the same. they use mapquest for routing. which isn't designed for trucks.
     
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  9. skibum_63

    skibum_63 Road Train Member

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    not sure about taking a bobtail, Park Service may still consider it a commercial vehicle(park rangers are worse than DOT), plus there is no place to drop a trailer in the W. Yellowstone area. I wouldn't want to. an option, is take your days off in Idaho Falls,(100 miles south) where you can rant a car, and go explore both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, makes for a nice getaway.

    Traffic is very congested, more so during bear, wolf and buffalo jams. ( Yellowstone version of traffic jams, when wild life is spotted.)
    The only trucks allowed in are the suppliers to the park's concessionaire.

    Yes you can run the very northwest corner of the park. US20 out of Idaho, into west Yellowstone, turn north onto US191. Two lane road to Belgrade,MT ((Bozeman), you follow the Gallentan River,( take the fly rod, some of the best fishing in the country here) curvy narrow. Keep you eyes open for wild life, bear elk, wolf. Large pull out(yes you can sleep there) on the north end, where you leave the park, stop and get a picture or two.
    I grew up in eastern Idaho, this was part of my 'back yard'.



     
  10. "Hang - Man"

    "Hang - Man" Heavy Load Member

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    Bigchevy Google map and the via the little yellow man is showing - (At a zoom level where you can see roads of two colors, Gold and yellow)

    At Moran Wyoming (South entrance) -toll booth or entrance buildings

    At West Yellowstone Montana (West entrance) --tollbooth and a sign along the road before hand that says "commercial hauling and trucking prohibited.

    At the North where both roads 89 and 212 enter Wyoming from Montana there are entrance booths or toll booths.

    The East entrance is actually to the East of Yellow Stone Lake where the road name changes from North fork hwy to East entrance road, with a toll both or entrance buildings.

    At all those points are Yellow Stone park signs.
    To me it doesn't look like a commercial truck and trailer can enter the park boundaries past those booths, others might know better.
     
  11. Ann Eiffel

    Ann Eiffel Light Load Member

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    Never ran through Yellow Stone. Have run through numerous yellow spots in truck stops. Does that count?
     
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