This Week in Yellowstone: October 15th to October 21st, 2026

This week's Yellowstone news.

So two big news stories.

The first is that the snow that was predicted last week actually fell.

Wasn't as much as the park was supposed to get according to that initial forecast from last, last week's episode.

But, you know, it did snow, so at least we're vindicated there for the weeks of saying it was going to snow and then it didn't.

It did shut down a few roads here and there.

It looked like it was only about a half day to 18 hours of some closures, and then everything opened back up.

I did mention last week that maybe Dunraven Pass from Tower to Canyon was going to be closing.

Looks like it's still open.

The date online on the park roads site for Yellowstone said that it was supposed to close on, I think, the 12th or 13th.

Still open right now.

Because there's no snow on the road, they're gonna keep it open until they deem it unsafe or they just wanna close it to start reducing traffic.

So know that, and know that the snow on all the roads is melted.

It is very pretty that it snowed in the mountains now.

It finally looks like it's supposed to.

I think the Bear Mountains out here in the summer, while fun, they start getting to me because, you know, mountains are supposed to have snow on them.

So now they do.

Whether or not that's gonna last, that's a conversation for next week.

But wanted to mention that and let everybody know that it actually did snow in the park, and it looks beautiful, and the top of s- the mountains have snow.

So if you're there right now, you're gonna have some fall colors still, and you're gonna have snow on, on the peaks.

I also wanna mention quickly for news that if you'd been paying attention to some of the news stories, I didn't talk about it 'cause had a potential to be quite a bit of a bummer.

Uh, there's a dog missing by Canyon.

It was missing for 34 days.

What happened is the owners left the dog in their cabin.

Not really supposed to do that.