Transportation To and Inside Yellowstone
Transportation Inside Yellowstone
If you want to explore Yellowstone on your own, you will need your own vehicle. There is no public transportation service provided within Yellowstone National Park. Thus, you will probably want to drive to the park or rent a car to tour the park.
If on the other hand, you do not feel the need to explore on your own, a number of businesses offer guided bus tours of the park. AmFac Parks & Resorts provides bus tours within the park during the summer. From what I have seen, their tour guides are generally more knowledgeable than the tour guides from the businesses that only come into the park once or twice a week. Besides AmFac, other companies offer tours originating from Bozeman, MT, Jackson, WY, Cody, WY, and West Yellowstone, MT.
In the winter when most roads are closed to wheeled vehicles, snowcoach tours are offered out of Gardiner MT, West Yellowstone MT, and from the South Entrance at Flagg Ranch.
More information on Yellowstone's Roads.
Entrances
There are five entrances to Yellowstone that lead to the Grand Loop Road.
More information on the Gateway Communities.
Transportation To Yellowstone
Commercial airlines serve the following airports near Yellowstone National Park all year: Cody and Jackson, WY; Bozeman and Billings, MT, and Idaho Falls, ID. The West Yellowstone, MT airport is serviced from June to early September.
A more distant, but also viable option, is to fly into Salt Lake City, Utah. You will have to look into it, but it is my suspicion that you will be able to find cheaper flights into Salt Lake City and possibly cheaper rental cars in Salt Lake City than you will in the Gateway Communities. It is a six to seven hour drive on good roads from Salt Lake City to West Yellowstone, Montana. You can also detour along the way, if you want, and enter Yellowstone through the South Entrance and Grand Teton National Park. I leave it up to you to determine if this is an option for you.
Bus service from Bozeman, MT to West Yellowstone, MT via Highway 191 is available all year. Bus service directly from Idaho to West Yellowstone is limited to the summer months. Commercial transportation from Bozeman, MT to Gardiner, MT is available during the winter and summer seasons. Commercial transportation to the park from Cody and Jackson, WY is available during the summer season. Contact local Chambers of Commerce for specific carriers and schedules.
Train service is not available to Yellowstone National Park. The nearest train depots are in southeast Idaho and northern Montana. Contact Amtrak for specific schedules.
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