High water damaged 41 parks and State recreation area, with the most extensive destruction in the seven parks and recreational areas along the Missouri River, where water rushing through the park for more than two months.
The deep snowpack is melting and heavy rain in May prompted the U.s. Army Corps of Engineers to release the record amount of water from reservoirs in the watershed over earlier this year. Pinnacle releases from the dam is almost double the previous record as The flush excess water Downstream.
After low tide, the crew began to repair the damage this fall in an effort to get up and running the Park as close to normal as possible next spring.