Beartooth Pass Tour
Beartooth Pass
This tour originates in West Yellowstone Montana and enters Yellowstone through the West entrance and transitions across the park to Lamar Valley exiting out the NorthEast entrance to Cooke City, Montana.
From Cooke City the tour crosses back into Wyoming and starts the ascend to Beartooth Pass.
The Beartooth Highway, named a National Scenic Byway climbs to 10,947 feet in elevation passing through lodgepole pine forests leading you to an enchanting world made of sparkling alpine lakes, meadows, peaks over 12,000 feet, glacially carved cirques, (amphitheater-like valley formed by glacial erosion) and vibrant wildflowers and year-round snow clinging to the Northern Rocky Mountains which border the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area along much of its route that serves as a wilderness retreat in Custer, Shoshone and Gallatin National Forest.
Weather permitting, it is open Memorial Day through Columbus Day every year
Beartooth Peak
Twin Lakes
Tour starts at 6:30 am and last 8-10 hours
Key sights to be seen;
Wildlife - Bears (Black and Grizzly), Elk, Bison, Wolves, Coyotes, Moose, Mt Goats.
Scenic - Lamar Valley, Soda Butte, Cooke City, Shoshone National Forest, Absaroka Wilderness, Beartooth Summit, and multiple alpine lakes.
Long Lake
Mountain Goats