WYS

Yellowstone Airport

ICAO KWYS44.6884°N 111.1180°W6,649 ft / 2,027 mMedium airport
On the map

Yellowstone Airport (IATA: WYS, ICAO: KWYS) is a medium airport in West Yellowstone, Montana, United States. It opened in Nov 1979. It has one runway, 8,400 ft (2,560 m) long, asphalt.

Timeline

1 event · 1979–1979
NOV 1979
OpenedYellowstone Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Yellowstone Airport
01/19026° / 206° · LIT
LENGTH8,400 ft2,560 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsDelta Connection 1United Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WYS. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Yellowstone Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway8,400 ft2,560 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,185of 29,823 · =482 North America · =359 USElevation6,649 ft2,027 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=675of 43,341 · =339 North America · =238 USAgeOpened 19792026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,900of 15,079 · =5,880 North America · =5,780 USRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
CNTRSALT LAKE CITY CNTR132.400
RDOGREAT FALLS RDO119.400
UNICCTAF/UNICOM123.000