Welcome to Cooke City, Colter Pass, and
Silver Gate, Montana, the heart of the Beartooth Mountains!
These
communities offer spectacular scenery and endless opportunities
for summer and winter recreation.
Cooke City and Silver
Gate are small towns with that old western charm. They
are surrounded
by the mountains
and
located just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Cooke
City is known as the hidden gateway and only 4.5 miles
to Yellowstone. Silver Gate is 1 mile from the Northeast
entrance to Yellowstone Nation Park. Colter Pass a few
miles to the east provides the access to the Clark's Fork
of the Yellowstone River, The Beartooth Mountains “All
American Road” to Red Lodge, MT sometimes called
the Beartooth Highway and is rated within the top 5 most
scenic drives in America. Cody, WY is just a short drive
through the beautiful Dead Indian Pass (Chief Joseph Scenic
Highway).
Cooke City and Silver Gate have a
lot to offer for those wanting to get away from it
all. These are just a few
of the things you can do when visiting Cooke City: fishing,
hiking, horseback riding, camping, wildlife viewing,
Or
just plan to relax and do nothing except smell the fresh,
clean mountain air and be sure to see the wildflowers
in bloom, usually between July & September. Typically,
our summers are cool, especially in the evenings. Occasionally,
the summer days can be on the warmer side. Our wintertime
population boasts 80 hardy residents and swells to about
300 in the summertime.
North
Yellowstone’s Winter Road • By
Daryl L. Hunter
Winter in Yellowstone is truly a wonderful thing to experience, its deep snows,
bitter cold, abundant wildlife and stark beauty can imprint memories that can
last a lifetime...........................Access to Yellowstone in winter is
the problem, it has become illegal to take a private snowmobile into Yellowstone
and very few of us have snow coaches of our own or are capable of marathon ski
expeditions too access Yellowstone’s winter wonders, but it is not as inaccessible
as many think.........................Mountain above Gardner MontanaThe snowmobiling
destination resort of Cooke City and Silver Gate Montana need groceries regularly
to keep its citizens alive so Yellowstone Park maintains winter access to these
communities. US-212 can be accessed through Yellowstone’s north entrance
in Gardner Montana, so Yellowstone visitors can access a smidgen of Yellowstone’s
treasures in winter by car.--------------------------> more
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Park Tours and Wildlife Safari Outfitters
Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris We run guided wildlife and photography safaris into Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Our mission is to provide you with the highest quality wildlife safari available by combining our love for this area with a desire to share this passion with you. Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris guides are the best in the business. Your guide will lead your safari with years of experience and first hand knowledge of this area that can only come from living and breathing Jackson Hole. Our vehicles are equipped with a pair of binoculars for everyone, a spotting scope, and a collection of natural history and wildlife books for use throughout the day. All of our trips include transportation, an experienced guide, snacks and a custom souvenir water bottle for you to keep. All of our full day trips include a gourmet picnic lunch served by your guide with homemade cookies for dessert. Join us in creating your perfect wildlife safari in and around Jackson Hole........................more info
The Hole Picture Safaris are more than just a wildlife safari company; we also do national park tours of Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks. We do photography tours that cater to photographers and get them to the pretty spots when the light is good or to where the wildlife is active. Our Wildlife Safaris strive to show you as much of Yellowstone and Grand Tetons's megafana as possible in the allotted amount of time. Custom tours are available for those who have a different idea of what they want to see or do, ideas that coalesce between the minds of the tour contractee and tour contractor. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the last remaining large, nearly intact ecosystem in the northern temperate zone of Earth and is only partly located in Yellowstone National Park. The Greater Yellow Ecosystem is one of the world's foremost natural laboratories in landscape ecology and geology and is a world-renowned recreational site The Greater Yellowstone Region is a huge place, Yellowstone Park is 2.2 million acres but its whole eco-system is about 10 million acres, much of it drop dead beautiful and much of it deserves to be seen as much as Grand Teton and Yellowstone Parks..................................more info
Cooke City and Silver
Gate are small towns with that old western charm. They
are surrounded
by the mountains
and
located just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Cooke
City is known as the hidden gateway and only 4.5 miles
to Yellowstone. Silver Gate is 1 mile from the Northeast
entrance to Yellowstone Nation Park. Colter Pass a few
miles to the east provides the access to the Clark's Fork
of the Yellowstone River, The Beartooth Mountains “All
American Road” to Red Lodge, MT sometimes called
the Beartooth Highway and is rated within the top 5 most
scenic drives in America. Cody, WY is just a short drive
through the beautiful Dead Indian Pass (Chief Joseph Scenic
Highway). 
Cooke City and Silver Gate have a
lot to offer for those wanting to get away from it
all. These are just a few
of the things you can do when visiting Cooke City: fishing,
hiking, horseback riding, camping, wildlife viewing,
Or
just plan to relax and do nothing except smell the fresh,
clean mountain air and be sure to see the wildflowers
in bloom, usually between July & September. Typically,
our summers are cool, especially in the evenings. Occasionally,
the summer days can be on the warmer side. Our wintertime
population boasts 80 hardy residents and swells to about
300 in the summertime.
North
Yellowstone’s Winter Road
