I'm on a road trip with a buddy, and we are on our way home from going to Glacier National Park. Because of your video's, we took a detour down to Hamilton to check out Blodgett Canyon Overlook, and saw Skalkaho Falls. Now we're gonna check out Beartooth Pass highway. Thanks for the videos! They are a huge inspiration for me to come out west and explore.
I work a LOT and your videos are such an escape from all the hectic chaos of work. Your calm demeanor mixed with all the adventure around you, is one of the most soothing thing in the world. Thank you for everything you do Tristan
My backyard, been living this all summer. Sure hope it clears sometime soon. When you combine the Beartooth Hwy with the Chief Joseph Hwy and then the Eastern approach to Yellowstone from Cody, you really have something.
Agree did that drive couple of years ago in early summer when there was more snow on the ground and believe it is the most scenic drive I have ever been on.
I did this one spring. It rained the entire time. Did not see a single mountain. People would use mountain ranges for directions. I'd look around and say "What mountains" This will definitely be a do-over trip for me.
Oh boy! Does your video bring back memories! My hubby and I have been to all of the spots you showcased in this video, including Devil's Canyon. We RV camped in the Big Horn National Recreation Area, plus also at Dead Swede Campground atop the Big Horn Mountains. Didn't take too much time to enjoy driving over the Beartooth Pass, since we accidentally got on the road with our 30' RV leaving the NW entrance of Yellowstone. We consider that our BIGGEST RV mistake EVER! We didn't know if we'd run out of gas or go backwards down the mountain due to the transmission failing on our truck . . . or come barreling into Red Lodge, MT due to brake failure! LOL! Since I am the navigator, boy, did I owe hubby a beer after that experience! Ha! Next time we visit - we will be sure to drop the RV off so we can enjoy all of those many mountain lakes and pull-offs. Loving the quick turn-around time on your videos! Thanks!
I'm retired from Forest Service and the Beartooths brought back memories from when I was a young man. Also, I fought fires in the Bighorns for the Forest Service on a couple of occasions so I'm looking forward to the next video...thanks.
Route 48 going over the mountains from Mount Storm, WV to Wardensville, WV. An absolutely beautiful view at the top of every hill. Ends up in VA near I-81.
Hwy 1 up the California coast from Bodega Bay up to Eureka. Have your camera ready for plenty of scenic stops and lighthouses. And then of course the reverse trip coming down through the Redwoods on Hwy 254. It's hard to beat that drive without leaving the country.
Another great video. I’ll be looking through the comments for other ideas of the “best” drives in America. I’ve been on all the roads you mentioned and I agree with your assessment. Other spectacular drives: Hwy61 between Deluth MN to Canada along Lake Superior (especially with fall colors). Another beautiful drive is from Ashton ID to Driggs in June when the rolling hills are emerald green with snow capped Tetons behind.
In 2019 I did my first solo camping trip and my first high elevation was a camp site high in the Bighorn Mountains. I fell in love with them. The mountain air was so good to a Texas flatlander. Beautiful drive, plenty of forests and scenery. There are 3 main roads to cross them: 14, 14A and 16. I did 14 and want to go back and drive the other 2. Have a safe journey.
The US 395 Eastern Sierra Nevada is my all time favorite drive from Mojave CA to Carson City NV very scenic thru mammoth lakes, Yosemite and many charming small towns and lakes along the way.
I know you started with thinking there was not going to be much to see because of the conditions at hand; however you displayed both your flexibility and your personal skills in overcoming adversity, producing an excellent episode for us. Well done!!
In 1967-69 I was lucky to spend time in Red Lodge and drive Beartooth Hwy, made me fall in love with the West. Have lived and driven many beautiful places, from desert to mountains to oceans (many you have shown) over the years but Beartooth is still my favorite. (Back in the 60's the glaciers were bigger and there were no guard rails!)
True-there may be many roads that need to be explored Tristan. This video made me wonder just how spectacular heaven must be. Thank you and may God bless
Omg, I had no idea that this was there. Adding to my must travel to list. I loved the water fall scene.. Thanks for sharing. Love that a follower ran into you. It is great of you to alow strangers to say hello.
The Beartooth is one of my favorite drives. Do it every chance I get. The Bighorns are my old backyard (Fort Phil Kearney between Buffalo-Story, WY). The hike to the "Medicine wheel" in the northern Bighorns west of Burgess Junction is interesting as well. Excellent "Blue Ribbon" trout fishing too (hope you took your Tenkara rods). Another excellent video. Thanks!
Thank you for giving time to the story of the internment of the Japanese. It is only through retelling of our history that maybe we learn. Always appreciate your videos and treks through our country.
Another great video, Tristan. My wife and I were just in Cody, WY for a few days and spent some time at Heart Mountain--glad you included it in the video. We've been to two other internment camps (there were 10) and this is the most developed that we've found. Worth the stop but skip the tour of the restored housing block--not worth the time as most time wasn't spent talking about Heart Mountain. We've driven the Beartooth Highway previously and it's spectacular. On our recent trip, we drive the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway from west to east. While a different drive, it was well worth doing and I'd do it again. It's mostly down a wonderfully carved valley but ends (going west to east again) with a great winding road over Dead Indian Hill (according to the road sign, it was named this because Chief Joseph's band left an injured warrior of their group at the top of the hill as they were fleeing the army and the army killed the man). It's a great drive. The whole Bighorn Basin is wonderful and worth a multi-day visit.
Stunning scenery, loved this video. I checked out on the map where you were as I'm not very familiar with the US, looking forward to the next ones. I discovered a Japanese internment camp in Cowra, NSW here in Australia. Hadn't realised we had them here. All that was left was an interesting Japanese war cemetery, also some people from Japan have created a beautiful Japanese Gardens in Cowra which I visited. I thought that was pretty forgiving of them.
My favorite drive would have to be Tioga Pass Road starting with the Lee Vining Canyon and ending at spectacular Olmstead Point to gaze upon Yosemite Valley..from a less crowded distance!
Icefields Parkway up in Banff, Canada. Nice views of glaciers and mountains and lakes. Experienced haze from smoke when i was up in Banff for the first few days, really sucked. But thankfully rain happened and it cleared out for the rest of the trip.
For me the most underrated but spectacular is the Kings Canyon Scenic Byway next to Sequoia. This one will take to the bottom of the deepest canyon in America.
Thanks Tristan for another great video. We are currently in Grand Teton NP and the smoke is atrocious. Just hazy outlines of beautiful peaks. Drove the Beartooth pass back in 2014 and it was amazing. In the Bighorn mountains is the Medicine Wheel (1.5 mile hike one way) that is very spiritual and beautiful.
Yep, I visit the Medicine Wheel in the next video. Stay tuned! When the weather is clear, we can see the Tetons from town here. I don't think we've seen them at all since about May.
16:56 "I mean...WHAT?!" Voice crack and all, I so felt that. Seriously. My impulse would be to keep going all the way down, wanting to just be IN THAT PLACE and then like, uh oh, how do I get back up now? 🤣
Enjoyed this. Too bad for the smoke. Who knew that canyon even existed?! As beautiful as the Grand Canyon. Also, no idea there were internment camps up there.
Thanks again Kristen for the prefect video. We took all our children and grandchildren for a month long vacation out west in 2018. We traveled the Beartooth to Yellowstone. Of all our trips out west in the past 35 years and our of all our drives, the Beartooth was by far the best. There was lots of snow in June and that made for spectacular scenery!
Have to add this drive to my list! Couple of my favs... Big Sur and Going to the Sun (like you said)... Also, really liked the Needles Highway in SD not far from Mt. Rushmore and Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain NP is great!
I'm on my way up to Yellowstone from San Diego as I type this (currently in St. George, UT) and should be there Monday. I'm hoping the smoke dissipates enough for at least one or two of the four full days I'll be in the park. This will be my first visit to the park, so even if it is hazy, I'm sure it will still be remarkable. Another great video, Tristan! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! Another good one is Hwy. 395 in California, on the eastern side of the Sierras. That one also has the Japanese internment camp Manzanar, just north of Lone Pine. I had no idea about this part of our history until folks I was camped with at Alabama Hills invited me along to visit the Manzanar National Monument. The most ugly thing in the most beautiful of places. Sad.
I agree. Driving out of Death Valley in March along along 190 and then 136 gives one the incredible view of the length of the eastern side of the Sierras when they are still snow-capped and when the desert is blooming. And when the sky is still clear and blue. Breathtaking. This isn't a mountain drive but it certainly gives an incredible view of those mountains. Also, this is beautiful in the fall when the aspens are golden.
@@sandeedobberstine5591 And they never got anything back upon returning home after the war ended. No compensation whatsoever until the Reagan administration decided to take some action.
395 is my favorite drive. I never get tired of driving on 395 and exploring the side roads that go to places like Kennedy Meadows, Horseshoe Meadows, Lake Sabrina, June Lake and Virginia Lakes. Oh, and the Bristlecone Pine Forest and Mono Lake. The East Asians in America were the most actively hated minority because of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the Constitution (legalized discrimination, how can you even do that???) and the only group to be sent to "concentration" camps just because of their ethnic origin. While the Nazis in Germany were doing that to the Jews, here in America the same was being done to the Japanese. So shameful, and yet most people know little to nothing about one of the darkest past in America's history.
Thanks for the trip along this road. Nice footage. This is one of the roads left on our travel list; it has been closed due to snow the last few times we tried to take this scenic byway.
The Beartooth Highway is typically open only from Memorial Day (End of May) until Labor Day (September) The best time to drive it is late July, Early August.....where Tristan filmed the Twin Lakes footage, you will see incredible wildflowers and sometimes Mountain Goats
We were near there in the Lamar Valley in YNP two days around 9/1. We spent 6 days boondocking north of Gardiner. Fist day was after heavy rain and the sky was clear and blue, we did some hikes in Lamar and it was just too late to head up the Beartooth, two days later is was heavily smoked in. Ah well next time, we been in YNP many times and are still not close to exploring the place. Lamar was packed with critters, six big herds of Bisons, Anteplope herds, Coyote, and maybe a distant Griz. Went to the Sawtooths and the smoke was bad there, seems like something always happens at Stanley, heavy rain, smoke and so on. We spent 4 days there.
any time the pass is open it is a beautiful drive, MY fav. drive is Hiway 70 in Calif.down the Feather River Canyon, in late spring.. go from Portola to Oroville (or otherway around) and spend about 2 days fishing along the river...
On a scale of 1-10 most of your videos are 8 or higher. This one is a ten. Thank you for that. I enjoyed going back to areas that my wife and I have already been to. I try to watch all of your videos but for some reason I must have missed this one when it was first put on You Tube. Glad I found it. Thanks again.
My parents, grandmother, and my 2 old brothers were at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp. One of those brothers was borned at this camp My Dad said he was allowed off the camp during the day to provide labor to the surrounding ranches due to the lack of working men. I asked my Dad how he felt being uprooted in the midst of WWII. He honestly said he would have probably endured unearned spiteful treatment, so Dad's thinking was to make lemonade out of the situation. While I have only been to the west side of Yellowstone, me thinks that there is much to experience to the east. Keep up the good work, Tristan.-Larry K.
Great weekend to see this video. All the sites without the crowds. lol Your videos are quickly becoming a "bucket list" of places to see! Thank you! Have a great weekend
Loved this one. What an incredible drive.you would love the Blueridge pkwy. I live close to it here in East Tennessee. It's got to be one of the prettiest drives in the entire eastern United States, especially in the fall season. There are also some great hikes and waterfalls off the parkway that are fabulous. If you are ever out this way, I would love to show them to you. Be safe out there.
The Beartooth really is an amazing drive! I’ve driven it a number of times and it never gets old. It’s this kind of country that made me adopt Wyoming when I was an undergrad at U of Wyoming.
It is interesting to me that at 13:55, you called Beartooth Pass "... a miserable place; bleak". To me, those areas up above the trees, with wide open expanses of rocky tundra, are a spectacular wonderland of natural beauty! I would much rather be up there instead of down lower where there are trees to clutter up the view.
Beartooth pass ranks up there at the top. I'm a little bias about Hwy 12, because I love southern Utah so much and it never gets old. I tell everyone who is going to southern Utah to do Hwy 12. Coastal drives in California, Oregon and Washington are up there also. Going to the sun Hwy was fantastic and scary the first time over it but became pretty easy after the fifth time but still breath taking. The pass in Rocky Mountain National Park is at the top of the list, that whole park is breath taking. Just to many to pick one that is the best. Its nice to see all those places though other peoples eyes and you did a great job on Beartooth even with the smoky views. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next video. Wasn't Big Horn Canyon a surprise. We were told about it and were shocked to see such a beautiful place. Well worth the short ride up the road.
I traveled the Beartooth Highway in July of 2020, arrived at the pass at sunset and captured amazing images. Will return when I can stay longer and explore more.
I know that feeling. I've seen and driven over the Rockies many times but the first time I got to fly over them there was massive cloud cover both ways.
We were in Glacier yesterday and are now near Whitehall, MT, headed towards Yellowstone in a couple days. I’m going to look at the coordinates you’ve posted and see what we can add. May have to make sure to hit Long Lake.
Great video, I really enjoyed it for two reasons. First, it’s one of the few excursions that I could do and second and inspired two or three videos that I can make along your route.
Wyoming is one of the very few states that I personally haven't visited yet. Have a few places to put on the list now when we get to go thanks to this video. Those switchbacks look amazing and a lot of fun!
I live in Billings, close to this trip you were on. Haven't done the devil's canyon overlook but , I've been on the lake boating . The canyon walls are stunning from down inside. I hope you do the drive when the sky is clear. Breathtaking.
I am retired. Worked 3 summers at Old Faithful Inn and live in Lovell. My son visited summer before last and I told him after raising 9 kids and worrying about them for 30 years I couldn't deal with being a passenger going up to Beartooth Pass. So he let me drive the opposite way you filmed from Red Lodge to the pass. I could handle him driving down the other side from the pass. Further down in that basin on the Chief Joseph Highway my friend, this Summer, has delivered 120 cords of firewood in the Cody area. I've run rendezvous for him off and on for several summers getting equipment to worksites. When I was 8 my family had a tv business in Billings and going through Cooke City a gas station guy gave me a heavy rock with gold ore in it. Last summer my daughter visited with 4 kids and we did the Park and drove to Jackson Lake, too hazy to see the faroff peaks. Summer before she came and we went to the Devil's Canyon viewpoint in the Nat Rec Area. When we got out to look down, my grand daughter was so overwhelmed she said "I could live here forever." Just like you said about that lake you went to near Squaretop Mountain. This last summer they went to the Buffalo Bill Museum, which is part of the Library of Congress, 10 acres of floorspace, 2 day ticket to see it. I asked my grandson. He could not believe how many guns. Back to the nat rec area. The prior mtn wild mustang area borders that spectacular canyon. Neat area to spend days observing horses. My special forces friend here was a cop in the mustang area for a while. When we lived in Livingston, my kids were growing up, we went to another Island Lake in the Beartooths past Mystic Lake between the two highest Montana Peaks, Granite Pk and Mt Wood. That canyon between those peaks is a thousand feet deeper than the Grand Canyon. We brought rope and built a raft to the 3 acre, forested island and slept over night. There is a large patch of huckleberries on the island I spend an hour stuffing myself with the berries. The Beartooth Highway could be the most spectacular high mountain highway. The road west of Cody to the East Yellowstone entrance is the most spectacular low mountain highway, hands down. When we took the road over the much lower Sylvan Pass, about 8,500 elev. We drove up to the Yellowstone Lake lookout and the kids hiked the 500 feet down to the lake and we picked them up on the road there, then went down and got in the lake, looks like California coast, with the beach and waves coming in looking 22 miles south, almost vast like the Pacific. Of course this time with the haze reminds me of the morning I watched the fog come into Big Sur. From the top it looked like that hill was an Island in the clouds. I was working at Pebble Beach Golf Course and rented a bicycle and cycled the 25 miles hiked up the 3500 elev peak above Big Sur and spent the night. I had a kid living with me in Lovell for a few years and about 4 summers ago we went over beartooth pass to Tower Falls and Roosevelt Lodge, slept there and rode the stagecoach in the morning. I've written a 2700 page semi autobiogtaphical novel based on experiences living in the Park vicinity. When you work in the Park we call each other savages. From the lecture at the end of the stagecoach ride I found out that the drivers of that transport in the early days were called savages. Always learning.
I pulled into Red Lodge on Monday, June 14, and parked the trailer at the last RV park south of town. The next morning I crossed the Beartooth and then came back in the afternoon. Going both ways I could see smoke coming up from behind a ridge. It turned out to be the Robertson draw fire. I got back to the trailer at the RV park by 3:30 PM and two hours later we all had to evacuate. Not a lot of options but to drive north towards Billings. The really pointy mountain is very cool. The Top of the World store is a must stop. It was CBS news correspondent Charles Kuralt who labelled the Beartooth the most scenic drive in America.
Tristan, you might already know this but I always carry a clear bottle of nail polish for those little nicks on the windshield when I travel. It’ shows a little after it dries but always kept it from spreading. My favorite part of your videos is when your face shows the awesome satisfaction of seeing breath-taking, unexpected beauty of God’s creation! It has to be seen because it’s almost impossible to put into words, although you do it very well! Thank you!
What's your favorite scenic drive??
The MILLION DOLLAR HIGHWAY between Silverton CO & Durango ,CO . Both ways. Narrow Gauge Train Trip between the two AWESOME.
Chief Joseph is the best and least known in the country
Probably the Pacific Coast Hwy from the Olympic Peninsula down to the Humboldt area.
@@62WILDCAT That is where I learned I suffer from elevation sickness. Only driver.
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I'm on a road trip with a buddy, and we are on our way home from going to Glacier National Park. Because of your video's, we took a detour down to Hamilton to check out Blodgett Canyon Overlook, and saw Skalkaho Falls. Now we're gonna check out Beartooth Pass highway. Thanks for the videos! They are a huge inspiration for me to come out west and explore.
That's a beautiful area and a fantastic drive! Hope you guys had fun 👍
I work a LOT and your videos are such an escape from all the hectic chaos of work.
Your calm demeanor mixed with all the adventure around you, is one of the most soothing thing in the world.
Thank you for everything you do Tristan
Agree, he’s a treasure.. sincere, kind, thoughtful, truthful and trustworthy..
You are so courteous of other people and even animals. That is appreciated!♥️
No need to mess with other people's (or creatures') day if I don't need to 👍
Want you to know I appreciate that you keep your language clean, no profanity or blasphemy!
Hi,I'm from Italy and I drove along this road 25 years ago.I still remember very well,fantastic!!!!!Congratulations to you,I always watch your video.
I love the way you are so non- intrusive and respectful of others as you are traveling .
I don't like it when people are annoying around me, so I try to not be annoying around other people 😄
My backyard, been living this all summer. Sure hope it clears sometime soon. When you combine the Beartooth Hwy with the Chief Joseph Hwy and then the Eastern approach to Yellowstone from Cody, you really have something.
Agree did that drive couple of years ago in early summer when there was more snow on the ground and believe it is the most scenic drive I have ever been on.
I did this one spring. It rained the entire time. Did not see a single mountain. People would use mountain ranges for directions. I'd look around and say "What mountains" This will definitely be a do-over trip for me.
@@secondact7151 So well worth it!
Oh boy! Does your video bring back memories! My hubby and I have been to all of the spots you showcased in this video, including Devil's Canyon. We RV camped in the Big Horn National Recreation Area, plus also at Dead Swede Campground atop the Big Horn Mountains. Didn't take too much time to enjoy driving over the Beartooth Pass, since we accidentally got on the road with our 30' RV leaving the NW entrance of Yellowstone. We consider that our BIGGEST RV mistake EVER! We didn't know if we'd run out of gas or go backwards down the mountain due to the transmission failing on our truck . . . or come barreling into Red Lodge, MT due to brake failure! LOL! Since I am the navigator, boy, did I owe hubby a beer after that experience! Ha! Next time we visit - we will be sure to drop the RV off so we can enjoy all of those many mountain lakes and pull-offs. Loving the quick turn-around time on your videos! Thanks!
Yikes, sounds stressful! Lol glad you guys made it out in one piece! Thanks for watching.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Look for BEAUTY. Even tiny wild flowers growing are NATURE'S gifts. ENJOY ! BLESSINGS on your trip.
My favorite scenic Drive is the Million Dollar Hwy in Colorado. This looks like it has to go on my bucket list for sure Thanks Tristan.
That's definitely a beautiful drive too. Thanks Sondra!
I'm retired from Forest Service and the Beartooths brought back memories from when I was a young man. Also, I fought fires in the Bighorns for the Forest Service on a couple of occasions so I'm looking forward to the next video...thanks.
The road east or west from Cody is one of the most beautiful. It is on my next bucket list to revisit. The whole Yellowstone area is simply amazing.
What a Beautiful part of our Country. Thanks Brother for Showing us Your View of it.
Hwy 550 from Durango, Colorado to Ouray! Especially for the fall colors.
Route 48 going over the mountains from Mount Storm, WV to Wardensville, WV. An absolutely beautiful view at the top of every hill. Ends up in VA near I-81.
Fifty miles of gorgeous!
Did WV in the fall last year. So gorgeous. Is there really a wrong route in that state? Waaay underrated and highly recommended.
@@nunofurbznes2799 Shhhhh. Don’t tell every body! We like it the way it is.
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WV is under rated
Hwy 1 up the California coast from Bodega Bay up to Eureka. Have your camera ready for plenty of scenic stops and lighthouses. And then of course the reverse trip coming down through the Redwoods on Hwy 254. It's hard to beat that drive without leaving the country.
Another great video. I’ll be looking through the comments for other ideas of the “best” drives in America. I’ve been on all the roads you mentioned and I agree with your assessment. Other spectacular drives: Hwy61 between Deluth MN to Canada along Lake Superior (especially with fall colors). Another beautiful drive is from Ashton ID to Driggs in June when the rolling hills are emerald green with snow capped Tetons behind.
Thanks for bringing me back to Beartooth Pass. Drove that about 8 years ago. Just spectacular!!
It's a great place, for sure! Thanks Denise.
In 2019 I did my first solo camping trip and my first high elevation was a camp site high in the Bighorn Mountains. I fell in love with them. The mountain air was so good to a Texas flatlander. Beautiful drive, plenty of forests and scenery. There are 3 main roads to cross them: 14, 14A and 16. I did 14 and want to go back and drive the other 2. Have a safe journey.
I did 14A and 16. Both were great!
Blue Ridge Parkway. You have said you wanted to go East sometime, so if you do, you'll be stunned by that road. Driving it makes you feel like a god.
It's on the list, for sure!
@@SUVRVing make sure you go when it is not a peak time. I have seen it bumper to bumper.
As a Carolinian, I can say it’s really really nice, I like it a lot, but it just can’t hold a candle to the grandeur out west
The US 395 Eastern Sierra Nevada is my all time favorite drive from Mojave CA to Carson City NV very scenic thru mammoth lakes, Yosemite and many charming small towns and lakes along the way.
That's a fun drive, for sure!
I know you started with thinking there was not going to be much to see because of the conditions at hand; however you displayed both your flexibility and your personal skills in overcoming adversity, producing an excellent episode for us. Well done!!
Thanks Michael, I appreciate that!
In 1967-69 I was lucky to spend time in Red Lodge and drive Beartooth Hwy, made me fall in love with the West. Have lived and driven many beautiful places, from desert to mountains to oceans (many you have shown) over the years but Beartooth is still my favorite. (Back in the 60's the glaciers were bigger and there were no guard rails!)
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True-there may be many roads that need to be explored Tristan. This video made me wonder just how spectacular heaven must be. Thank you and may God bless
Yes Sir...
How beautiful a hike around one of those mountain lakes would be! Maybe dip your toes in. Thanks for sharing..........
Omg, I had no idea that this was there. Adding to my must travel to list. I loved the water fall scene.. Thanks for sharing. Love that a follower ran into you. It is great of you to alow strangers to say hello.
The Beartooth is one of my favorite drives. Do it every chance I get. The Bighorns are my old backyard (Fort Phil Kearney between Buffalo-Story, WY). The hike to the "Medicine wheel" in the northern Bighorns west of Burgess Junction is interesting as well. Excellent "Blue Ribbon" trout fishing too (hope you took your Tenkara rods). Another excellent video. Thanks!
I liked seeing the marmot living another windy day in its life at 14:09
Love the Beartooth Hwy and the region around it, south into Wyoming’s WRR and east into the Big Horn Mountains.
Thank you for giving time to the story of the internment of the Japanese. It is only through retelling of our history that maybe we learn. Always appreciate your videos and treks through our country.
Another great video, Tristan. My wife and I were just in Cody, WY for a few days and spent some time at Heart Mountain--glad you included it in the video. We've been to two other internment camps (there were 10) and this is the most developed that we've found. Worth the stop but skip the tour of the restored housing block--not worth the time as most time wasn't spent talking about Heart Mountain.
We've driven the Beartooth Highway previously and it's spectacular. On our recent trip, we drive the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway from west to east. While a different drive, it was well worth doing and I'd do it again. It's mostly down a wonderfully carved valley but ends (going west to east again) with a great winding road over Dead Indian Hill (according to the road sign, it was named this because Chief Joseph's band left an injured warrior of their group at the top of the hill as they were fleeing the army and the army killed the man). It's a great drive.
The whole Bighorn Basin is wonderful and worth a multi-day visit.
Time 17:11 Gorgeous views, wow even w the haze still absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing
Stunning scenery, loved this video. I checked out on the map where you were as I'm not very familiar with the US, looking forward to the next ones. I discovered a Japanese internment camp in Cowra, NSW here in Australia. Hadn't realised we had them here. All that was left was an interesting Japanese war cemetery, also some people from Japan have created a beautiful Japanese Gardens in Cowra which I visited. I thought that was pretty forgiving of them.
My favorite drive would have to be Tioga Pass Road starting with the Lee Vining Canyon and ending at spectacular Olmstead Point to gaze upon Yosemite Valley..from a less crowded distance!
I think Tioga Pass Road is my favorite also even if I have done it many times.
Agree, Tioga Pass is spectacular
Icefields Parkway up in Banff, Canada. Nice views of glaciers and mountains and lakes. Experienced haze from smoke when i was up in Banff for the first few days, really sucked. But thankfully rain happened and it cleared out for the rest of the trip.
I rode the Beartooth on my motorcycle with severe clear skies 🌌
Unforgettable memories 😍👍🏼😊 stayed in Redlodge
For me the most underrated but spectacular is the Kings Canyon Scenic Byway next to Sequoia. This one will take to the bottom of the deepest canyon in America.
Great drive! I want to do it again!
Thanks Tristan for another great video. We are currently in Grand Teton NP and the smoke is atrocious. Just hazy outlines of beautiful peaks. Drove the Beartooth pass back in 2014 and it was amazing. In the Bighorn mountains is the Medicine Wheel (1.5 mile hike one way) that is very spiritual and beautiful.
Yep, I visit the Medicine Wheel in the next video. Stay tuned! When the weather is clear, we can see the Tetons from town here. I don't think we've seen them at all since about May.
16:56 "I mean...WHAT?!" Voice crack and all, I so felt that. Seriously. My impulse would be to keep going all the way down, wanting to just be IN THAT PLACE and then like, uh oh, how do I get back up now? 🤣
I know, I really wanted to go down there, but it wasn't in the cards for this trip. Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed this. Too bad for the smoke. Who knew that canyon even existed?! As beautiful as the Grand Canyon. Also, no idea there were internment camps up there.
Thanks again Kristen for the prefect video.
We took all our children and grandchildren for a month long vacation out west in 2018. We traveled the Beartooth to Yellowstone. Of all our trips out west in the past 35 years and our of all our drives, the Beartooth was by far the best. There was lots of snow in June and that made for spectacular scenery!
It's Tristan, not Kristen, but thanks! I'd like to do the drive when there's more snow out there. That'd be beautiful. Thanks for watching!
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Have to add this drive to my list! Couple of my favs... Big Sur and Going to the Sun (like you said)... Also, really liked the Needles Highway in SD not far from Mt. Rushmore and Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain NP is great!
We loved the Beartooth Highway. Great video. Thank you!
I'm on my way up to Yellowstone from San Diego as I type this (currently in St. George, UT) and should be there Monday. I'm hoping the smoke dissipates enough for at least one or two of the four full days I'll be in the park. This will be my first visit to the park, so even if it is hazy, I'm sure it will still be remarkable.
Another great video, Tristan! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! Another good one is Hwy. 395 in California, on the eastern side of the Sierras. That one also has the Japanese internment camp Manzanar, just north of Lone Pine. I had no idea about this part of our history until folks I was camped with at Alabama Hills invited me along to visit the Manzanar National Monument. The most ugly thing in the most beautiful of places. Sad.
They confiscated their homes, businesses, and property too. Shameful.
I agree. Driving out of Death Valley in March along along 190 and then 136 gives one the incredible view of the length of the eastern side of the Sierras when they are still snow-capped and when the desert is blooming. And when the sky is still clear and blue. Breathtaking. This isn't a mountain drive but it certainly gives an incredible view of those mountains. Also, this is beautiful in the fall when the aspens are golden.
@@sandeedobberstine5591 And they never got anything back upon returning home after the war ended. No compensation whatsoever until the Reagan administration decided to take some action.
395 is my favorite drive. I never get tired of driving on 395 and exploring the side roads that go to places like Kennedy Meadows, Horseshoe Meadows, Lake Sabrina, June Lake and Virginia Lakes. Oh, and the Bristlecone Pine Forest and Mono Lake.
The East Asians in America were the most actively hated minority because of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the Constitution (legalized discrimination, how can you even do that???) and the only group to be sent to "concentration" camps just because of their ethnic origin. While the Nazis in Germany were doing that to the Jews, here in America the same was being done to the Japanese. So shameful, and yet most people know little to nothing about one of the darkest past in America's history.
@@geosophik9369 Where is 395, what state?
Thanks for the trip along this road. Nice footage. This is one of the roads left on our travel list; it has been closed due to snow the last few times we tried to take this scenic byway.
The Beartooth Highway is typically open only from Memorial Day (End of May) until Labor Day (September) The best time to drive it is late July, Early August.....where Tristan filmed the Twin Lakes footage, you will see incredible wildflowers and sometimes Mountain Goats
I am heading that way from Oregon. Thanks for the awesome video! 😃
Great video. Thank you for your hard work.
Loved the video, had the pleasure of driving the Bear tooth Highway, and the surrounding area. Big Horn mountains were gorgeous Thx for the memories !
Thanks for taking time to see Beartooth Mtn. My home area, beautiful pics
We were near there in the Lamar Valley in YNP two days around 9/1. We spent 6 days boondocking north of Gardiner. Fist day was after heavy rain and the sky was clear and blue, we did some hikes in Lamar and it was just too late to head up the Beartooth, two days later is was heavily smoked in. Ah well next time, we been in YNP many times and are still not close to exploring the place.
Lamar was packed with critters, six big herds of Bisons, Anteplope herds, Coyote, and maybe a distant Griz.
Went to the Sawtooths and the smoke was bad there, seems like something always happens at Stanley, heavy rain, smoke and so on. We spent 4 days there.
Loved the bighorn sheep and the pronghorns.
The Pacific Coast Highway has always been my number 1.
any time the pass is open it is a beautiful drive, MY fav. drive is Hiway 70 in Calif.down the Feather River Canyon, in late spring.. go from Portola to Oroville (or otherway around) and spend about 2 days fishing along the river...
On a scale of 1-10 most of your videos are 8 or higher. This one is a ten. Thank you for that. I enjoyed going back to areas that my wife and I have already been to. I try to watch all of your videos but for some reason I must have missed this one when it was first put on You Tube. Glad I found it. Thanks again.
That was so beautiful up at Beartooth Pass. We drove this highway from Billings to Yellowstone in 2020. It was drop dead gorgeous.
My parents, grandmother, and my 2 old brothers were at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp. One of those brothers was borned at this camp
My Dad said he was allowed off the camp during the day to provide labor to the surrounding ranches due to the lack of working men.
I asked my Dad how he felt being uprooted in the midst of WWII. He honestly said he would have probably endured unearned spiteful treatment,
so Dad's thinking was to make lemonade out of the situation.
While I have only been to the west side of Yellowstone, me thinks that there is much to experience to the east. Keep up the good work, Tristan.-Larry K.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful scenery!
I've driven around the country a couple times now. I really enjoy driving through the Black Hills of SD.
Great weekend to see this video. All the sites without the crowds. lol Your videos are quickly becoming a "bucket list" of places to see!
Thank you! Have a great weekend
Durango to Ouray. Colorado.
Or, Highway 160 west from Durango to Tuba City, AZ.
Gorgeous views! Wow! I didn't realize there was an internment camp near Cody. Interesting and sad!
The smoke is unfortunate, but it does make a stunning sunset. Safe travels.
Agreed! Thanks for watching, Angela.
My favorite drive was from Orting to Paradise at Mt Rainier in Washington. Thanks again for taking us on your adventures. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Those were some great waterfall shots .THANKS
In Rocky mountain national park...lol...I keep clicking the wrong things on my tablet...thanks for sharing this wonderful drive!
Million Dollar Highway in SW Colorado is my pick.
That's a beautiful road, for sure!
Thank you for doing a quick turn around. I want to do this trip in October.
Thank you for always taking us along. Your hard work is very much appreciated!
Loved this one. What an incredible drive.you would love the Blueridge pkwy. I live close to it here in East Tennessee. It's got to be one of the prettiest drives in the entire eastern United States, especially in the fall season. There are also some great hikes and waterfalls off the parkway that are fabulous. If you are ever out this way, I would love to show them to you. Be safe out there.
The Beartooth really is an amazing drive! I’ve driven it a number of times and it never gets old. It’s this kind of country that made me adopt Wyoming when I was an undergrad at U of Wyoming.
The drive from glacier to Spokane is incredible beautiful as well I think maps takes you through some remote roads
When I lived in Portland, the loop of the gorge & Mt Hood in either direction is great
I definitely want to come do this drive. Thanks for all you do.
It is interesting to me that at 13:55, you called Beartooth Pass "... a miserable place; bleak". To me, those areas up above the trees, with wide open expanses of rocky tundra, are a spectacular wonderland of natural beauty! I would much rather be up there instead of down lower where there are trees to clutter up the view.
Beartooth pass ranks up there at the top. I'm a little bias about Hwy 12, because I love southern Utah so much and it never gets old. I tell everyone who is going to southern Utah to do Hwy 12. Coastal drives in California, Oregon and Washington are up there also. Going to the sun Hwy was fantastic and scary the first time over it but became pretty easy after the fifth time but still breath taking. The pass in Rocky Mountain National Park is at the top of the list, that whole park is breath taking. Just to many to pick one that is the best. Its nice to see all those places though other peoples eyes and you did a great job on Beartooth even with the smoky views. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next video. Wasn't Big Horn Canyon a surprise. We were told about it and were shocked to see such a beautiful place. Well worth the short ride up the road.
I traveled the Beartooth Highway in July of 2020, arrived at the pass at sunset and captured amazing images. Will return when I can stay longer and explore more.
Absolutely gorgeous! I so look forward to heading north next early fall to visit Wyoming and Montana. Thanks so much Tristan! Great job as always!
Thanks Jana!
I know that feeling. I've seen and driven over the Rockies many times but the first time I got to fly over them there was massive cloud cover both ways.
Gorgeous video. All the colors of rocks and mountains, water, wildlife. Nice music 🎶. Thought provoking as well. Thank you.
We were in Glacier yesterday and are now near Whitehall, MT, headed towards Yellowstone in a couple days. I’m going to look at the coordinates you’ve posted and see what we can add. May have to make sure to hit Long Lake.
Sometimes the most beautiful drive in the world is the road your on. 🌎 Thanks Tristan! 👍
Super great views, thanks for sharing this.
My favorite drive in Wyoming is the road the follows the Green River to Green River Lakes
I was just there yesterday for the second time! 😁
No joke, Tristan. You need some bear spray. The last time I hikes in the Bear Tooth’s we saw 2 grizzlies.
Egads!!
I was lucky enough to drive beartooth pass this year...beautiful...
Sure is. Thanks Betty!
Stunning scenery. Beautiful. I don't think I have ever seen a skinny marmot. That one was a little chunky guy.
Lol that's a good point. They all do seem to be on the chunky side.
That pointy mountain is Index Peak. I'm spending the summer at the western end of the Beartooth in Cooke City, MT.
This one is almost right up there with the Icefields Parkway in Banff/Jaspet National Park.. but not quite 😉🇨🇦
The Icefields parkway is almost a spiritual experience. Incredible.
I'll have to do that one, for sure!
I need to get to this area. Thanks for videoing and sharing. Great channel.
Amazing seeing the rams so close! Love seeing Montana vistas!
Insane campsite indeed! And Devil's Canyon! The drone sunset is the best. Looking forward to the rest of the trip. Thanks, T.
Great video, I really enjoyed it for two reasons. First, it’s one of the few excursions that I could do and second and inspired two or three videos that I can make along your route.
Wyoming is one of the very few states that I personally haven't visited yet. Have a few places to put on the list now when we get to go thanks to this video. Those switchbacks look amazing and a lot of fun!
I live in Billings, close to this trip you were on. Haven't done the devil's canyon overlook but , I've been on the lake boating . The canyon walls are stunning from down inside. I hope you do the drive when the sky is clear. Breathtaking.
👍👍 Going-to-the-Sun, Million Dollar Highway + tons of shorter drives in CO, Independence Pass being a good one.
I am retired. Worked 3 summers at Old Faithful Inn and live in Lovell.
My son visited summer before last and I told him after raising 9 kids and worrying about them for 30 years I couldn't deal with being a passenger going up to Beartooth Pass. So he let me drive the opposite way you filmed from Red Lodge to the pass. I could handle him driving down the other side from the pass. Further down in that basin on the Chief Joseph Highway my friend, this Summer, has delivered 120 cords of firewood in the Cody area. I've run rendezvous for him off and on for several summers getting equipment to worksites.
When I was 8 my family had a tv business in Billings and going through Cooke City a gas station guy gave me a heavy rock with gold ore in it.
Last summer my daughter visited with 4 kids and we did the Park and drove to Jackson Lake, too hazy to see the faroff peaks.
Summer before she came and we went to the Devil's Canyon viewpoint in the Nat Rec Area. When we got out to look down, my grand daughter was so overwhelmed she said "I could live here forever." Just like you said about that lake you went to near Squaretop Mountain.
This last summer they went to the Buffalo Bill Museum, which is part of the Library of Congress, 10 acres of floorspace, 2 day ticket to see it. I asked my grandson. He could not believe how many guns.
Back to the nat rec area. The prior mtn wild mustang area borders that spectacular canyon. Neat area to spend days observing horses. My special forces friend here was a cop in the mustang area for a while. When we lived in Livingston, my kids were growing up, we went to another Island Lake in the Beartooths past Mystic Lake between the two highest Montana Peaks, Granite Pk and Mt Wood. That canyon between those peaks is a thousand feet deeper than the Grand Canyon.
We brought rope and built a raft to the 3 acre, forested island and slept over night. There is a large patch of huckleberries on the island I spend an hour stuffing myself with the berries.
The Beartooth Highway could be the most spectacular high mountain highway. The road west of Cody to the East Yellowstone entrance is the most spectacular low mountain highway, hands down. When we took the road over the much lower Sylvan Pass, about 8,500 elev. We drove up to the Yellowstone Lake lookout and the kids hiked the 500 feet down to the lake and we picked them up on the road there, then went down and got in the lake, looks like California coast, with the beach and waves coming in looking 22 miles south, almost vast like the Pacific. Of course this time with the haze reminds me of the morning I watched the fog come into Big Sur. From the top it looked like that hill was an Island in the clouds. I was working at Pebble Beach Golf Course and rented a bicycle and cycled the 25 miles hiked up the 3500 elev peak above Big Sur and spent the night.
I had a kid living with me in Lovell for a few years and about 4 summers ago we went over beartooth pass to Tower Falls and Roosevelt Lodge, slept there and rode the stagecoach in the morning. I've written a 2700 page semi autobiogtaphical novel based on experiences living in the Park vicinity. When you work in the Park we call each other savages. From the lecture at the end of the stagecoach ride I found out that the drivers of that transport in the early days were called savages. Always learning.
I pulled into Red Lodge on Monday, June 14, and parked the trailer at the last RV park south of town. The next morning I crossed the Beartooth and then came back in the afternoon. Going both ways I could see smoke coming up from behind a ridge. It turned out to be the Robertson draw fire. I got back to the trailer at the RV park by 3:30 PM and two hours later we all had to evacuate. Not a lot of options but to drive north towards Billings.
The really pointy mountain is very cool. The Top of the World store is a must stop.
It was CBS news correspondent Charles Kuralt who labelled the Beartooth the most scenic drive in America.
Tristan, you might already know this but I always carry a clear bottle of nail polish for those little nicks on the windshield when I travel. It’ shows a little after it dries but always kept it from spreading. My favorite part of your videos is when your face shows the awesome satisfaction of seeing breath-taking, unexpected beauty of God’s creation! It has to be seen because it’s almost impossible to put into words, although you do it very well! Thank you!
Triston you are the best and you are pursuing your bliss how good is that!