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Building the Beartooth Highway in Montana: Book celebrates ‘America’s most beautiful drive’

August 29, 2016 /

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The 68-mile highway between Red Lodge and Cooke City in southcentral Montana is widely thought of as an engineering marvel – "the country’s highest and most novel highway – 11,000 feet high," the Helena Independent noted in June 1936. The route was surveyed in 1927, work was begun in 1931 and the project was completed in 1936 – eighty years ago this year.

"Most of the work after 1933 was widening it and putting in guard rails. Originally it didn’t have guard rails, but they found that it scared people," Axline told the Missoulian.

He added that what is arguably America’s most beautiful road was not marketed as such for getting it approved by Congress.

LANCE NIXON [email protected]

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/hometowns/building-the-beartooth-highway-book-celebrates-america-s-most-beautiful/article_50fbc5cd-cedb-5c51-8dcd-e1cef182b775.html

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