Yellowstone Part 2 The Beartooth Pass!

 

 

 

A land locked glacial lake.



Look closely at the road in this picture to get an idea of the mountain size!



The Beartooth Pass is touted as one of the 10 best scenic drives in the west!  The entire trip is over 200 miles long winding through some of Wyoming and Montana's

 tallest mountains at a little under 11,000 feet tall.  We started out early in the morning in hopes of getting a good chunk of the drive knocked out by noon time, but that didn't exactly happen. 

The Beartooth starts on the east side of Yellowstone and we are staying at the Northwest part of the park so we had to go through the park just to get to the beginning of this drive. The drive goes through some very windy roads and climbs to some very high elevations!  The temperature at our campground when we left was in the 80's and at the highest point the temps were in the mid 40's.  This gave the kids a chance to play in the mountain snow along with Norman.  They had a blast but, dressed in shorts it was short lived and the troop headed back to the truck. 

After about 6 hours of driving, we decided it was time to head back to camp. Heading back the kids started getting hungry, so we stopped in a little town called Cooke City for some grub.  The 1st place we walked into was a little pricey, so we walked across the street to a deli for a cheap sandwich. We walked in and were greeted by their dogs running around inside the deli, so I decided to get the sandwiches to go. When it was all said and done we had two subs smaller than a Subway footlong, with very little meat, actually just one slice of shiny (old) roast beef, on Karen's sandwich and god knows what other goodies that come with animals running around in the kitchen, for a tasty sum of $37.00!  Needless to say we weren't thrilled about the price or quality, but the old supply and demand economics was in full swing!  We were hungry and they were one of the few choices!

From there we headed back into the park and started for home.We saw some very beautiful mountain ranges and glacial lakes!  Part of the drive literally goes from dense forest to a tundra with very little vegetation when you get above 10,000 feet.  All in all is was a nice day trip, but the entire family was ready to be out of the truck at the end of the day considering the trip lasted 11 hours! Karen was so burnt out of driving she crawled in the back with the kids and turned on a movie! The next day we lounged around the campground and did some fishing in the Yellowstone river!