Beartooth Highway

The Beartooth Highway is a National Scenic Byway in Montana and Wyoming. It’s a 68-mile route through the Beartooth and Absaroka Mountains. We started at our campground near Red Lodge and drove into the northeast entrance of Yellowstone National Park and then of course we have to retrace our path back to the campground.

It’s a motorcyclist’s paradise and there was a rally there the weekend we left Red Lodge. It was hazy from the fires further west and there was snow still on the mountains.

There are “fences” to help stop the rocks from falling on the road. The road in Montana was very good but Wyoming was much narrower.

The road is closed Monday thru Thursday from 7pm to 7am for road work. Basically because IT’S GONE. They’re building a bridge and cleaning up an area of landslide. I have no idea how long this work will take.

We entered Yellowstone NP at the NE entrance. We’d never been out this way before. It’s very different, more rugged, than the thermal areas. But I guess there are bison everywhere.

We stopped at Top of the World to do a little shopping – shirts and of course huckleberry chocolate.

Halfway into the drive I remembered my phone takes a panoramic photo. I’d never tried it before. Here’s my first picture.

And after I figured it out.

We stopped for waterfalls but luckily didn’t have to stop for cattle.

Red Lodge, MT

It’s been so hot, we were happy to move to elevation near Red Lodge, MT. Had to take the blankets out and Benn turned on the heat one morning. Too bad we can’t take this cool air with us. The campground has no hookups and a hand pump for water. The pump was next to our site and it squeaked. We laughed every time someone came to get water.

We took a hike to a lake nearby.

But the best part of this campsite was that our nephew Charlie was there. Our DOG nephew, not our human nephew Charlie — but it would have been great if he had been there, too.

Can you see him?

We went into Red Lodge for the bakery and huckleberry flavored items. One day we traveled the Beartooth Highway –that’s a separate post.