Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Approaches to the Northeast Entrance
THE BEARTOOTH SCENIC BYWAY
NOTE: Road construction may delay traffic on segments of this highway for the next several years.
The Beartooth Highway, open only between Memorial Day weekend and early October, cov-
ers the 70 miles (113 km) between Red Lodge and Yellowstone's Northeast Entrance. In
Amer-
ican Places
(1993), novelist and Western environmentalist Wallace Stegner wrote: “Yesterday,
coming over the Beartooth Scenic Highway … we looked across from the 11,000-foot comb
of Beartooth Pass and saw not a town, not a ranch, not a cabin, not a road or pole line, not a
smoke, only miles beyond miles of forested mountains, shark-tooth peaks, the turquoise sets
of lakes, bare stone, snow, wildness, serenity, the blue of distance.”
You'll traverse parts of three national forests and the Beartooth Plateau between Red
Lodge and Cooke City: Custer National Forest near Red Lodge, Gallatin National Forest near
Cooke City, and Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
