Beartooth Highway – Wyoming side

Continuing our drive on Beartooth Highway. I added another aerial shot of the switchbacks on the Wyoming side. On this side of the highway there are a lot more lakes which were super pretty. I also took a screenshot of the road so you can see all the switchbacks coming down the mountain.

Just before we made it to the peak of the mountain, we were lucky to see a bunch of mountain goats with their babies. It was close to a dozen of them. I wish we could’ve stopped to watch them for a little bit. But there just wasn’t any place to park.

Then around the next bend, we got to the wall of snow. They have a snow machine to clear the road and it’s essentially a giant pick up truck with a auger, think of a snowblower in the front of it and they just snow blow with the pick up truck right through the snow to clear it which leaves this cool wall that you get to drive by. I’ve seen pictures where the wall is well over 12 feet high. But when we went by today I would say it was a high of at least 5 feet.

Right after that, we passed the ski resort. It’s not what you think of a typical ski resort. It’s just an area where people come up here to go downhill skiing or cross country skiing but there’s no actual building or lodge or anything like that.

We passed another huge wall of snow and we finally made it to the top 10,947 feet elevation. We stopped to take a few photos and then we were ready to hit the switchbacks on the way down. The views were incredible with the mountains in the background, Alpine Meadows, and lots of little lakes.

This was such an amazing ride. We can’t wait to do it again.Læs mere