Scenic Wyoming
Beartooth Highway
The renowned Beartooth Highway (Highway 212), is a 65-mile route over the Beartooth Mountains with the Beartooth Pass at 10,947 feet, and is surrounded by the Gallatin, Shoshone, and Custer National Forests and sits in a million-plus acre wilde...
Springtime Cattle Drive in Wyoming
Springtime is the time that many ranchers will move herds of cattle around to different pastures and on to BLM leases. A neighbor and friend of ours asked for some help this year. We have done this trail many times and it is always a gor...
Mountain Goats in the Beartooths
Rocky Mountain goats inhabit the alpine meadows in high elevations in the Rocky Mountains. They are not a true goat, but close relatives. They are sure-footed often seen climbing along sheer mountain cliffs. I saw these grazing on a drive over ...
Beartooth Highway Opens 2011
The Beartooth Highway is a stretch of highway that goes from Red Lodge to Cooke City, MT across the rugged Beartooth Mountains. Charles Kuralt called it the most scenic highway in North America. It is the highest highway in the Northern Rockies...Yellowstone National Park via NE Entrance
Last week Coulter Pass from Pilot Creek in Wyoming to Cooke City Montana was plowed allowing Silver Gate. The Northeast entrance to Yellowstone Park was now open for the season. We took a drive up the Chief Joseph Highway and continued through ...
Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Today, May 1, was the perfect day for a drive along the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway. Named after the Nez Perce chief during the conflict of 1877, this highway and area also has significant historical interest. The Nez Perce during the summer...
Big Horn Sheep
On the last weekend of December 2010, we took a drive up the Northfork Highway, west of Cody, Wyoming, to the east gate of Yellowstone National Park. Teddy Roosevelt called it the most scenic 50 miles in the country. Inside the Shoshone Nationa...
Riding the Beartooth Mountains
The third weekend in August we went up to our favorite spot in the Beartooth Mountains with friends. We camp near the old sheep pens across from Little Bear Lake overlooking Chain Lakes. We are at about 9,400 feet elevation. The first day we...