Run Up the Beartooth Highway Video

[Terry J]

This is one of the better videos on riding the Beartooth Highway because it shows more of the lower end while you're climbing the mountain. Riders are on a pair of Buells.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=izRS8s6uvkg

The other side of those guard rails drops at about 75 degrees. You can get DOWN the hill a lot faster than you got up if you're not careful. But it's a great ride and just beautiful.

If the link doesn't work, go to youtube and type in the following:

LEANDREW Beartooth Pass

It's a pretty good picture of climbing up.

Terry J

 

[shokdimn]

Spectacular area! Looking forward to seeing it from a rider’s :bike: perspective. Hopefully, in the not too distant future.

 

[Geezer]

You just can't do justice to a place like that in a home movie.

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

Did the ride in 1992 on my honeymoon in a cage. Wanted to ride a bike on that road ever since. Maybe this year. Nice video but it is prettier in person on a clear day.

 

[biggjohn]

My wife and I rode over Beartooth pass twice in July 2005. We started the ride that day in Sheridan Wyoming. It was raining so we put the rain gear on before we left the hotel room. We had a great ride over the Bighorn mountains, stopped in Greybull (my wifes birthplace) for lunch, then through Cody where she used to live. It continued to rain all day. That afternoon we headed over Beartooth pass on our way to Red Lodge, MT. The clouds were hanging low over the pass and we rode into them as we gained altitude. Visibility was very limited up on top, we crawled along barely able to fine the road.

We had a great night in Red Lodge. The next morning our plan was to ride back over the pass and then head into Yellowstone NP. As we looked towards the pass, we could see that the clouds were again hanging low over the mountains. Out second ride over Beartooth was exactly like the day before. We have now been over the pass twice and we really can't claim to have seen it.

We stopped at a place called Top of the World on one side of the pass. I bought a patch that says "I survived Beartooth Pass", which was very appropriate. One of these days we will get back and see the pass, I hear it is very beautiful.

John

 

[Old Michael]

Riders are on a pair of Buells.

Did it late last summer on a clear day. Not enough places to pull over and take photos. But a great ride.

It might be maddening after a coupla hours, but those Buells sound really nice.

 

[orestes]

I'm going to be in the area in late September and I am tempted to head over to Red Lodge from West Yellowstone. The maps I have show the road as closed during the winter (I can guess why if melt is still around in June), so is Beartooth likely to be open around the 20th or is it like Mt Evans, closed after Labor Day.

Dave

 

[Terry J]

I'm going to be in the area in late September and I am tempted to head over to Red Lodge from West Yellowstone. The maps I have show the road as closed during the winter (I can guess why if melt is still around in June), so is Beartooth likely to be open around the 20th or is it like Mt Evans, closed after Labor Day.
Dave

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but that depends entirely on the weather after Labor Day. Generally, Wyoming will close from their side first, but expect snow anytime after the first of September. We've been caught in the snow that late and, depending how fast the temperature drops, it can be kind of hairy. Cell phones don't work up there, and you're pretty isolated because the tourist traffic has slowed.

The weathers gets pretty unpredictable then, too. Sunny days can get dark in a hurry.

Watch the weather. The Billings Gazette will report closures:

www.billingsgazette.net

Terry J

Hope that helps.

 

[orestes]

I'm going to be in the area in late September and I am tempted to head over to Red Lodge from West Yellowstone. The maps I have show the road as closed during the winter (I can guess why if melt is still around in June), so is Beartooth likely to be open around the 20th or is it like Mt Evans, closed after Labor Day.
Dave

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but that depends entirely on the weather after Labor Day. Generally, Wyoming will close from their side first, but expect snow anytime after the first of September. We've been caught in the snow that late and, depending how fast the temperature drops, it can be kind of hairy. Cell phones don't work up there, and you're pretty isolated because the tourist traffic has slowed.

The weathers gets pretty unpredictable then, too. Sunny days can get dark in a hurry.

Watch the weather. The Billings Gazette will report closures:

www.billingsgazette.net

Terry J

Hope that helps.

Thanks, pretty much what I expected. Probably save it for the next trip in a few years time.