More of Day 2 in Yellowstone (September 4, 2025)

From Yellowstone's northeast entrance, we took the Beartooth Highway, a 68-mile scenic route in Montana and Wyoming. The highway (US 212) reaches 11,000 feet and typically closes by October due to snow. We stopped at the Rock Creek Vista Point at 9,199 feet. See the highway below?  
 

We decided this must be the bear tooth itself. The highway, completed in 1936, was carved through extreme terrain using methods like hand-carved rock embankments and precision blasting through granite.

This sign promises deep snow.

So does this ski lift at Beartooth pass. Parking is at the top of the mountain. So in a backwards gravity definition, what goes down must come up?

Returning to Yellowstone, back through the Beartooth Pass.

The 11,699-foot Pilot Peak, visible from the Beartooth Highway, is the pointiest mountain peak we've ever seen.

A little red fox ran along the road beside us.

Back in Lamar Valley, we saw pronghorns. The photos blurry because we had to set the phone on the 10X setting.