The woman was swept to safety, but Wilkerson was flushed from Hellroaring Creek into the Yellowstone River.
Rather than use a footbridge a mile farther upstream, he decided to ford. It had been a wet winter and the stream was running very high. Wilkerson was attempting to ford the creek (known to be a nearly unfordable stream) to aid a female companion struggling in the water when he was swept into the nearby Yellowstone River. James Wilkerson, 19, was drowned on Hellroaring Creek near its mouth on July 18, 1982. Let’s be careful out there! According to Death in Yellowstone, here is a list of the top ways people have met their maker in our beautiful (and dangerous!) National Park: Still, we are left with an impressive array of natural perils, the top 10 shown here with Robert Rath’s fine renditions of menaces that are ever-present… and deadly.
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