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4.91 out of 5 Rider Rating 4.91
142 Reviews

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By Guest (0 McR Points) on Jun 30, 2001

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FBFletch
11 McR Points
November 1, 2012
I rode the Beartooth Hwy on August 5, 2011. It…
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Poola
February 22, 2012
Went to Cody, WY in July 2010 for the 70th annual…
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Written Directions

North entrance....Go south of Billings and I-90 on highway 212 through Red Lodge (MT). About 15 minutes south of town you go UP! way up to nearly 11,000 feet. Extreme road. About 2 hrs later after going over the top and down a even narrower south decent into Wyoming, you can go West into Yellowstone Park on 212 through Cook City, or East to Cody on the Chief Joseph scenic Highway, and it is nearly as good as the Beartooth! From the East do yourselves a favor and come from Sheridan over the Bighorn Mountains(another great route!). Suggest if going South to forget Yellowstone Park and go east! Fantastic mountain route. If you gotta see the park..Turn around at Sheridan and go back in on 14 through Cody. Don't miss these roads!

Scenery

This road will curl your hair. Lotsa UP and DOWN, little guardrails, awesome scenery. You couldn't build a better route than this one! Expect to see as many bikes on this road as cars! Everything from incredible mountains, dense forest, rivers, rocks to snow and tundra. And a whole lot of "straight down"!. Photo contributed by visitor in May 09: "Beartooth Pass In August 2008."

Drive Enjoyment

Steep grades, endless hairpin curves, countless switch-backs, good pavement as no trucks, campers dare go up this one!

Photo contributed by visitor in May 09: "Bear Tooth Pass Photo - August 2007."

Photo contributed by visitor in Jul 09: "View from overlook in MT. This is a stop with resrtooms and photo ops."

Photo contributed by visitor in Jul 09: "Near the summit on 212 in MT. Rain in the distance."

Tourism Opportunities

Just lots of pullouts to peer over the edge!

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Clemmie64
August 23, 2021
8 McR Points
Motorcycle Type : Touring
We just rode the pass from Red lodge to 296, That is the Chief Joseph Scenic highway to Cody. The pass was great and the beauty was stunning to see and good road, it was 58 degrees at the top, so layer up as you stop. It's worth the ride and the construction was not bad at all. The CJSH was to us a better ride with the views for us, its a hidden gem not to be missed. It had beautiful canyons and valley passes and sweeping turns, just a great road to enjoy along with the Bear Tooth.
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Longhaul
August 24, 2017
0 McR Points
Motorcycle Type : Cruiser
212 starts out in Red Lodge, Montana and continues over Bear Tooth Path into Wyoming. How I got there was looking for a T-Shirt from Bear Tooth as Harley Davidson. As it turns out, that meant in Red Lodge. Instead I turned and went over the pass and all the way into Wyoming.

The road then was pretty awful. I was on it on 1 August this year and they were in the middle of a repaving project. 6" worth of difference from one lane to the other. Brand new blacktop, that was so fresh it was still leaking oil. Loose gravel on the new surface that hadn't been cleaned up yet. The other side was grooved badly.

It was not the most entertaining road under those conditions, especially with impatient drivers behind me trying to make like they were on some sort of road race course.
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Naples4u
December 25, 2014
4 McR Points
Motorcycle Type : Touring
Best Ride I have taken. Simply awesome!
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