The COVID Project
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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Yellowstone National Park
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 36 C.F.R. 1.5
- Issued
- 2020-05-13 May 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-18 (South and East entrances only; Wyoming) (read as 2020-05-18)
- End
- Phase 2 June 1 (Montana entrances); backcountry June 15; visitor centers and many lodging facilities remained closed (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- May 18, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCapacity limitTravel and quarantine
- Addressees
- visitors
- concessioners
- the States of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho
- Functions reached
- TV travel demand (three of five entrances closed until June 1)
- LG lodging and campgrounds (closed in phase 1)
- CN concessions and tour operators
- CB gateway communities in Montana (West Yellowstone, Gardiner, Cooke City) closed out for a further two weeks
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS
Operative words
Yellowstone National Park will reopen on a limited basis on May 18. The park has been closed to visitors since March 24, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.... Yellowstone has outlined a three-phased plan that initially opens the South and East entrances of Wyoming and [the lower loop]... Wyoming has lifted out-of-state travel restrictions and has requested the state's entrances open the week of May 18. Montana and Idaho continue to have out-of-state restrictions in place and the park is working closely with these states and counties to open the remaining three entrances as soon as possible.
Enforcement
36 C.F.R. 1.5; entrances physically closed
Notes
The park's reopening phases were expressly keyed to the States' travel-quarantine orders (Montana and Idaho 'out-of-state restrictions'), the mechanism the memoranda's ecosystem Part describes.