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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.
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 ...
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
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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] US 212 looking west from Vista Point towards the Beartooth Mountains. Along this series of switchbacks, US 212 climbs over 3,000 feet (910 m) to Beartooth Pass.
Beartooth Highway: 68.7 110.6 Montana, Wyoming Wyoming–Montana state line on US 212 near Cooke City: US 212 and MT 78 in Red Lodge: June 15, 2000 June 13, 2002 (extended in Montana) Scenic high-elevation highway to Yellowstone National Park's northeast entrance Natural, Scenic [16] NSB Big Bend Scenic Byway: 220.0 354.1 Florida
The mountains are traversed by road via the Beartooth Highway (U.S. 212) with the highest elevation at Beartooth Pass 10,947 ft (3,337 m)). The name of the mountain range has been attributed by the U.S. Forest Service to a rugged peak found in the range, Beartooth Peak, that has the appearance of a bear's tooth.
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