The roads in and around YP are demolition derby on wildlife. I can tell you I have been passed in the park in limited sight distance by rockets. I am running at speed limit but lot of people want to use the winding roads as their own race course.
Mountain Journal:
"According to a 2022 National Park Service report cited in the assessment, more than 1 million vehicles use 191 to enter Yellowstone from the west, and a quarter of all crashes in their study area involved wildlife. Between 2011 and 2020, the transportation department and the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team documented 1,322 animal carcasses along U.S. 191 and MT 64, and the true number of road-killed could be eight times higher, researchers claim."
IMO the distances for various sights are so far apart that people underestimate how much time it takes on these roads to get from point A to point B. Which results in pedal to the metal! And doing more stupid crap.
Mountain Journal:
"According to a 2022 National Park Service report cited in the assessment, more than 1 million vehicles use 191 to enter Yellowstone from the west, and a quarter of all crashes in their study area involved wildlife. Between 2011 and 2020, the transportation department and the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team documented 1,322 animal carcasses along U.S. 191 and MT 64, and the true number of road-killed could be eight times higher, researchers claim."
IMO the distances for various sights are so far apart that people underestimate how much time it takes on these roads to get from point A to point B. Which results in pedal to the metal! And doing more stupid crap.
memtb
The drives were often pretty entertaining! memtb
