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After the Beartooth Highway closed this morning at the MT/WY state line due to overnight snow, crews have opened the popular route again.
Here’s what we wrote yesterday:
It was delayed by a week, but the Beartooth Highway connecting Red Lodge and Cooke City — and by extension, Billings to the Northeast Entrance — is indeed open today.
The above photo is from 2013, but it would seem to sum up the current road conditions. The opening of the Beartooth Highway was delayed by a week because of the challenging road-removal conditions on the Wyoming side of the highway.
#BeartoothHighway & #BeartoothMountains in #Montana /4 – close to the summit of Beartooth Highway, elevation 10,240 ft (last pic). The snow on the side of the road was easily 6ft high.
Summit is approximately 10,500 ft pic.twitter.com/0XPwHQZBhr
— Theresa M. Giarratano (@TMGiarratano) May 31, 2018
