Help with traveling the Beartooth Highway
Hi everyone. This is my first post! We've had a travel trailer for awhile, but since I'll be retiring soon we plan to upgrade to a Fifth Wheel. But for this summer's trip we'll still have our 30 ft...
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In case it isn't obvious from the other posts, if you enter YNP from Cody via the NE entrance, you don't cross the high part of the Beartooth Hwy. Not unless you make the loop north to Red Lodge.
There still are switchbacks (or in my thinking 180deg loops) on Chief Joseph. But once the 2 highways meet, you head west of Cooke City and the park.
But if you are happy with camping in Cody for a couple of days, the day loop north makes a lot of sense. Then you can enter the park via the east entrance. Still a climb, but nothing worse than the Big Horn Mtns.
There still are switchbacks (or in my thinking 180deg loops) on Chief Joseph. But once the 2 highways meet, you head west of Cooke City and the park.
But if you are happy with camping in Cody for a couple of days, the day loop north makes a lot of sense. Then you can enter the park via the east entrance. Still a climb, but nothing worse than the Big Horn Mtns.
