When do the roads open up in Yellowstone?

Shadow_Grey wrote:
Trying to plan a trip thru Yellowstone for late April. We are traveling form Portland, OR to STL, MO and wanted to travel thru Yellowstone and the Blackhills. We will NOT have our camper but wanted to go thru the parks so when we return we will have a better idea as to where we want to camp at.
Google Maps shows the roads closed and will not let us plan it out as a trip. I don't care how twisty some of the roads are, we only have the truck which will be mostly empty except for clothes, tent, sleeping bags and back packs.

Does anybody around there know when highway 20 will open? What about some of the other roads around there?

If I were you I'd bend my trip down into Utah -- Great time to visit before it gets too Hot. Not even a slight chance to get into YNP unless you are in a Snowmobile. A lot to see in Utah and if you Catch a break you could run through Colorado and get to St. Louis, with little problem. During the late spring the Rockies can be just a little snowy but you might just get lucky, and it is a Beautiful drive on I-70 a Good Interstate.

BOL,