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The Beartooth Highway is the section of U.S. Route 212 between Red Lodge and Cooke City, Montana.It traces a series of steep zigzags and switchbacks, along the Montana–Wyoming border (45th parallel) to the 10,947-foot-high (3,337 m) Beartooth Pass in Wyoming.
Beartooth Highway: 68.7 110.6 Also a NSB Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway: 40.48 65.15 Big Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway: 19.93 32.07 Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway: 0 0 Bigfoot Scenic Byway: 146.51 235.78 Bighorn Scenic Byway: 0 0 Black River Scenic Byway: 11.33 18.23 CR 204 & CR 513 near Bessemer: Black River Harbor June 20, 1992
Rising to an elevation of 10,974 feet (3,345 m) above sea level at Beartooth Pass, the highway traces the historical route of Civil War General Philip Sheridan over the Beartooth Mountains. In his book Dateline America published in 1979, the late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt referred to the highway as "the most beautiful drive in America". [1]
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Access to the glacier is difficult due to poor weather conditions and the requirement to travel via off road vehicle and then hike on foot several miles to the base of the glacier. The road is impassable for up to 10 months of the year. The Beartooth Highway (U.S. 212) is one of the closest access roads. Two smaller glaciers in the immediate ...
The Beartooth Highway (U.S. Highway 212) crosses 10,974-foot (3,340 m) Beartooth Pass, and from there descends to the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Cirque of the Towers. The Wind River Range is in the southern portion of the forest and is composed primarily of Precambrian granitic rock. [75]
Clearing efforts on Highway 20, the northernmost North Cascades pass, will began Monday, March 27, the Washington State Department of Transportation said on its social media.