Bill and Me in the Wee RV - North to Alaska

  Greetings once again from the library in Jackson, WY......

What a grand adventure we had on our weekend off as we traveled through the east gate of Yellowstone NP over to Cody, WY and on to Red Lodge, MT to drive the famous Beartooth Highway that ends in Cooke City, the northeast entrance to Yellowstone. Heralded as one of the most scenic drives in the United States, the Beartooth Highway, a National Scenic Byways All-American Road, features breathtaking views of the Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains, and open high alpine plateaus dotted with countless glacial lakes, forested valleys, waterfalls and wildlife.The Beartooth Hwy passes through what is known today as the Beartooth Corridor. Surrounded by the Custer, Gallatin, and Shoshone National Forests, traveling parallel to the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, and abutting Yellowstone National Park, the Highway sits in a million-plus acre wilderness. It is one of the highest and most rugged areas in the lower 48 states, with 20 peaks reaching over 12,000 feet in elevation. In the surrounding mountains, glaciers are found on the north flank of nearly every mountain peak over 11,500 feet high. The Road itself is the highest elevation highway in Wyoming (10,947 feet) and Montana (10,350 feet), and is the highest elevation highway in the Northern Rockies. It was a cold, rainy weekend, but even with fog and clouds blocking some of the views, that route probably wins most spectacular of all we've seen this summer. The following photos don't even begin to capture the awesomeness of that route which is a definite for your bucket list!

After crossing east side of Yellowstone we
wove in and out of Wyoming and Montana
several times along our route.

 

Some Yellowstone scenes

After only a month working in the
park I know the feeling!

It was 39 degrees and spitting snow here!

Brave cows!

In these next three photos would you believe we were actually standing on a bridge looking down into the river?

This is the Sunlight Creek Bridge Wyoming's highest elevation bridge

We camped at West Yellowstone on
way back to Jackson.

Wild flowers were still abundant
despite cooler temperatures.

Beautiful route from Cody getting
to Beartooth Hwy

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Tribe used
this route attempting to escape US Calvary
and made his famous declaration,
"From where the sun now stands I will
fight no more forever."

Amen!