Visitor center · Beartooth Highway
A practical first stop for maps, Yellowstone info, and road updates.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Beartooth Highway Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Beartooth Highway. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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The Miners' Gathering Place“Red Lodge's Labor Temple gave coal miners a place to gather above ground. In nineteen oh-nine, their local union had more than a thousand members when it built this brick hall.”
Plays on the road 0.5 mi from Red Lodge Visitors Center in the Parkwolf Beartooth Highway Tour Guide.
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“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
Red Lodge Visitors Center is a staffed visitor information stop at the junction of U.S. 212 and MT 78 in Red Lodge, the gateway to Beartooth Highway. Stop here before the climb for maps and visitor guides, Yellowstone information, and help planning the drive.
The center offers state publications and a 24-hour brochure room. Public restrooms and a picnic area are on site.
Wildlife
42 sightingsGrizzly BearMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
22 sightingsGray WolfMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
49 sightingsBisonMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
122 sightingsMooseMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
260 sightingsMountain GoatMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
16 sightingsBighorn SheepMost seen around 7 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Beartooth Highway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
ModeratePalisades Trail #1097 mi · 4 hr · 3.5 mi awayA 7-mile out-and-back with a Fox Road turnaround
ChallengingFace-of-the-Mountain Trail #715 mi · 10 hr · 3.9 mi awayOld highway grade gives way to a remote Line Creek Plateau traverse.
ModerateNichols Creek Trail4.3 mi · 3.3 hr · 4.2 mi awayA meadow approach turns into a long climb through pines.Parkwolf’s Beartooth Highway ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
