Snowmobiling : Beartooth Highway, Wyoming
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About Snowmobiling : Beartooth Highway:
If you equate winter with snowmobiling adventures, then consider Beartooth Highway (closed to automobile traffic during the winter) a gateway to bliss. Beginning at Red Lodge, Montana and running west toward Yellowstone National Park, a snowmobiling focus in its own right, Beartooth Highway meanders between the Montana and Wyoming borders, connecting the best of both states.
One such “best” is the Beartooth Loop Recreational Trail, just one of many trails directly off the byway. Delight in this particular 14-mile groomed trail throughout the long winter season, which lasts from November to late June or even July. Plow through evergreen forests dotted with aspens and keep an eye out for wildlife including majestic big horn sheep, snowy white mountain goats, legendary grizzly bears, and speedy snowshoe hares.
After an intense day of snowmobiling, collapse at Cooke City, a snowmobile-friendly outpost at the western end of the byway. In addition to lodging, Cooke City has snowmobile dealers, gas stations, nitrous refills, and avalanche safety equipment.
Access the same Cooke City trails that snowmobile manufacturers use as proving grounds to test their machines. Tackle this r
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About Snowmobiling : Beartooth Highway:
The Beartooth Highway is an All-American Road that has been called "the most beautiful drive in America," by late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt. Due to heavy snowfall at the top, the pass is usually open each year only from Memorial Day in late May through Labor Day in September.
The Beartooth Highway is the section of U.S. Highway 212 between Red Lodge, Montana and Cooke City, Montana. It traces a series of steep zigzags and switchbacks, along the Montana-Wyoming border to the 10,974-foot (3,345 m) high Beartooth Pass. The approximate elevation rise is from 5,200 to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in 12 miles (1,600 to 2,400 m in 20 km) in the most daring landscapes.
When driving from the east to the west, the highest parts of the Beartooth Highway level off into a wide plateau near the top of the pass, and then descend to where the Beartooth Highway connects to the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway near Cooke City, which forms the northeast gateway to Yellowstone National Park. En route, one p
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