Opinions on Yellowstone trip

fj12ryder wrote:

MFL wrote:

dodge guy wrote:
You will have mountain passes anywhere you go. Personally I would go into the park through RedLodge and over the Bear Tooth Highway. Amazing scenery and takes through Cooke City. For me this is a great way to come into the park!

While I agree with much of this, I would not want to take 212 (bear tooth highway) from Laurel, towing a heavy trailer. That road uses many switch backs, tight turns, followed by steep climbs. Again, I have ridden this highway on a motorcycle, great fun. Stayed at Red Lodge KOA (nice place) I still think best option is to enter from Cody, and a no brainer, if you are already at Ten Sleep.

These areas...weather, ya never know? You take your chances!

I towed enclosed snowmobile trailers 6 times from Bozeman to West Yellowstone. Often a challenge, sometimes a wait, while plows were doing their job. This was in Winter though!

I motorcycled through Glacier Park, late July, right after they got 14"s of snow overnight. While I was riding up highway to the sun, skiers were skiing down next to the road.

Jerry

Jerry, I think he was being facetious about coming over Bear Tooth Pass pulling a trailer when the OP was trying to avoid mountain driving. :)

I did it with my Excursion and 35ft TT. I just took it slow and used the pullouts to stop and get some pics. Yes there are a lot of switchbacks, but I’ve seen way worse.
We stayed at Perry’s RV Park in Red Lodge. The other thing one could do is stay there and do an early trip up to the top of the Beartooth and then come back down and drive around to Cody. But at that point it’s so close to get into Yellowstone I would just take 212. I wasn’t the only RV or Trailer up there that day.