
Yellowstone Airport (IATA: WYS, ICAO: KWYS, FAA LID: WYS) is a state-owned public-use airport located adjacent to U.S. 191/U.S. 287 one nautical mile (2 km) north of the central business district of West Yellowstone, a town in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Although only open from June through September, commercial passenger service is available during those months. Scheduled airline service is subsidized by the federal Essential Air Service (EAS) program. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 4,186 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 4,331 enplanements in 2009, and 4,451 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year). The town of West Yellowstone is located near the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park. The airport should not be confused with Yellowstone Regional Airport in Cody, Wyoming or Yellowstone International Airport between Belgrade and Bozeman, Montana, which are 104 miles (167 km) and 88 miles (144 km), respectively, from this airport and about 53 miles (85 km) from the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park (Yellowstone Regional) and about 88 miles (142 km) from the north entrance or west entrance (Yellowstone International).

44.688°N, 111.118°O · 2.027 m s. n. m. (6.649 ft)
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Approach
Common traffic (CTAF)
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
From our own logbook: 23 aircraft documented between 2019 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Yellowstone Airport (WYS). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/WYS
MLA
“Yellowstone Airport (WYS).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/WYS. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Yellowstone Airport (WYS).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/WYS.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Yellowstone Airport (WYS). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/WYS (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Yellowstone Airport (WYS)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/WYS},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/WYS}},
urldate = {2026-10-19},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}Wikipedia
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