Beartooth Highway
Red Lodge, MT · Beartooth / Absaroka
US 212 climbs out of Red Lodge in a series of switchbacks and tops out near 11,000 feet on the Beartooth Plateau, where the trees give up and the world turns to tundra, granite…
Photo: Jean Tabbert, NPS / Glacier National Park / CC BY 2.0
Mountains
Going-to-the-Sun Road
About
Fifty miles of two-lane road runs the spine of Glacier National Park, climbing from the cedar forests along Lake McDonald to Logan Pass at 6,646 feet on the Continental Divide. The drive was blasted straight into the cliffs of the Garden Wall in the 1930s, so you ride a narrow ledge past Bird Woman Falls, the Weeping Wall, and the hairpin called the Loop. Go early when the road opens for the season, watch for mountain goats at the pass, and pull off at Saint Mary Lake on the east side for the long view down the valley.
Highlights
Logan Pass at the Continental DivideGarden Wall and the Weeping WallThe Loop hairpin switchbackBird Woman FallsSaint Mary Lake on the east side
