Beartooth Pass Hwy
Looking into touring the pass next summer on our 1st trip out west from Ma. Thinking of staying a couple nights in Cody on the way to Yellowstone, and doing the Beartooth - Chief Joesph loop. My quest...
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Padlin wrote:WyoTraveler wrote:
Are you going over dead indian pass through Crandal, Yellowstone and out over Bear tooth to Red Lodge or just to Yellowstone east gate then make the loop? Dead indian is 296 off hwy 120 out of Cody. There are some forest camp grounds on dead indian and on way to Crandal. Nice and scenic. Dead indian is 8048 and Bear tooth is 10947.
This is the loop I had in mind, "dead indian pass through Crandal, Yellowstone and out over Bear tooth to Red Lodge" but the other way around, heading from Red Lodge to Dead Indian Rd. Why does one road have 3 names? Dead Indian Pass, Chief Joseph, and Co Hwy 7? Add 2 more names, Sunlight Basin Rd, and Crandall Rd...
You lost me on the last sentence, don't know what you mean by "Dead indian is 8048 and Bear tooth is 10947"
The Dead Indian highway is 296 off 120. If you ask someone in Wyoming how to get to Crandall or Sunlight basin they will tell you: "take the road, ahh, some dead indian, I can't remember his name." I suspect due to that it just got called Dead Indian. It is on some maps as Dead Indian Pass. 8048 ft elevation. (Bear Tooth pass is 10947 ft). After you go over the pass you come down into a valley and campground on right. Trail head on left. Nice small campground. Then there is some more mountain before you come to a sharp right curve in the road before it goes over a bridge. A rest area on right before you go over the bridge and campground on left. The camp ground has a very steep entrance. I wouldn't camp down there with an RV. Too steep. It is right on the river. About 500 ft prior to the bridge on the sharp curve a gravel road goes straight. It goes out to sunlight basin. The road ends just prior to Yellowstone boundry line. There is a trail head with corrals but not labeled as a campground. There are fire pits and toilets there and lots of camping area. That gravel road is called the Sunlight basin road. After the bridge the road goes through Crandall. (Called Crandall road)_
A small store only. Then over the line into Gardner, MT. Great ice cream store there. Then Yellowstone entrance.
