Survey puts dollar figure to Beartooth Highway

It didn’t surprise Bob Thomas that the Beartooth All-American Road generates an estimated $13.6 million and 176 jobs from nonresident summer visitors to this mountain town and surrounding Carbon County.

"If the highway goes away, this becomes a ghost town," he said.

Thomas, who runs the town’s Comfort Inn, says the $13.6 million figure is probably low.

By Brett French

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