Jim Shoe wrote:
Friends of mine just got home from there a couple of weeks ago. They said that you couldn't get to the geyser basins from either direction. Somebody's wrong.
That appears to be the case, somebody is wrong. The NPS website shows the closures. Madison to Old Faithful has been open since mid April. West and North entrances to Madison opened the same day. That makes the geyser basins accessible from two major entrances. If your friends were south of the park, they were correct, no way to go north until mid May. Good lesson on why people should check on road closures before they travel a thousand miles. A minor change in base camps would have given them access.