Mallard’s Rest Road Realignment Project

Dec 14, 2023 3:52 PM

The Mallard’s Rest FAS was established and has been available for public use since 1963. In June 2022, the FAS was heavily impacted by flooding of the Yellowstone River. As a result, the FAS is currently closed and there is no public access allowed due to damage sustained to the access road and a portion of the streambank during the 2022 flooding event. Under the proposed action, FWP would establish a new FAS entrance from Montana Highway 89 and reroute the access road through a right-of-way easement located on adjacent DNRC land. Relocation of the access road would serve to avoid the unstable section of the access road impacted by the 2022 flooding event. The topography of the affected area makes the public road easement requested from DNRC under the proposed action the most viable, direct, and economical access route to the existing Mallard’s Rest FAS. Appendix 1 provides detailed plans for the proposed project.