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Beartooth Highway Drive
Route Red Lodge to Cooke City
Distance 68 miles (3 hours)
Speed Limit Officially 70 mph, but more like 35mph
Summary From its starting point at Red Lodge, the highway climbs Rock Creek
Canyon's glaciated valley before dramatically ascending the valley wall via a series of
spaghetti-loop switchbacks, gaining an amazing 5000ft in elevation in just a few miles.
A parking area at Rock Creek Vista Point Overlook (9160ft), 20 miles from Red Lodge,
has toilets and a short walk (wheelchair accessible) to superb views. The road continues
up onto the high plateau, past 'Mae West Curve' and into Wyoming.
In another 7 miles the road passes Twin Lakes , where a parking area offers good
views of the cirque and the ski lift that carries the daring to an extreme spring ski run, es-
tablished by Austrians in the 1960s. Another 1.3 miles further below the road is Gardner
Lake . After 0.7 miles, at the start of a series of switchbacks, look northwest across Rock
Creek for views of the Hellroaring Plateau and the jagged Bear's Tooth (11,612ft; 'Na
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