Yellowstone Airport

Yellowstone Airport
WYSKWYS

Yellowstone Airport

West Yellowstone, United States · North America
North America America/Denver
2direct destinations
2airlines
1runway
2,560 mLongest runway
23Aircraft documented

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).

Location

Mapa

44.688°N, 111.118°O · 2.027 m s. n. m. (6.649 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States
CityWest Yellowstone
Coordinates44.688°N, 111.118°O
Elevation2.027 m s. n. m. (6.649 ft)
Time zoneAmerica/Denver
Longest runway2,560 m
Direct destinations2

Runways · 1

01/19
Length2,560 m8,399 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication

Approach

132.400ARTCC

Common traffic (CTAF)

123.000CTAF · UNICOM

Automated weather

118.100AWOS
Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

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.

What flies here

From our own logbook: 23 aircraft documented between 2019 and 2025.

23Aircraft documented
1,635Movements recorded
2019–2025Years on record

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.

Airlines operating here · 2

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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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026

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

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_wys,
  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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