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While progress has been made, the road through the Lamar River Valley from Tower Junction to Cooke City in Yellowstone National Park remains closed.

Runoff from the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek chewed through the right lane of traffic on Friday due to the high amount of snowmelt in the area. Crews worked over the weekend to get it reopened.

"While we've made good progress on repairs of the washed out section of road near Soda Butte, we are not yet in a position to reopen the road to travel," park spokesman Al Nash said in a news release. "We will revisit the road status Tuesday afternoon."

Since the water showed no sign of stopping and was beginning to eat away at the left lane, park officials shut down the road until they could stabilize the washout.

While the road is closed, travel to Silver Gate and Cooke City is not possible.