The plowing has begun on the Beartooth Highway.
The Montana Department of Transportation’s plowing is on schedule for U.S. Highway 212 that links Red Lodge in southcentral Montana to Yellowstone National Park’s northeast entrance at Cooke City/Silver Gate.
Crews doing the plowing report less snow than usual so far this year.
Drivers will not be able to use the road until its opening Memorial Day weekend, weather and other factors permitting. Despite the lower lift with snow, it will not open early because transportation crews need time to perform work such as paving, hauling rock, repairing guardrails and signs and cleaning ditches.
The Beartooth Highway is just over 68 miles in length and passes through 20 mountain peaks in the Beartooth Plateau and reaches an elevation of nearly 12-thousand feet above sea level allowing travelers to see exquisite vistas of Montana and northern Wyoming.
