"The Plug" is an 8.58-mile stretch of unplowed highway 212 east of Cooke City, Mont. Study was commissioned by tourism entities Park County (Wyo.) Travel Council, Montana’s Yellowstone Country and ...

In the winter, Cooke City in southwestern Montana is a dead-end town. That’s because there’s an 8.5-mile stretch of Highway 212 that isn’t plowed between Cooke City and the Pilot Creek parking area, ...

A view looking a half-mile east along U.S. Highway 212 from the center of Cooke City, Montana, ends at the edge of an 8-mile section of road left unplowed in winter to benefit snowmobile riders. Most ...

COOKE CITY — Even in a town that gets so much snow every year that dump trucks have to periodically haul it out to keep the streets wide enough to drive, this winter is shaping up to be one for the ...

Yellowstone is already a beautiful and coveted national park, but there’s one route to get there that is a destination in ...

Most of the gateway communities around Yellowstone — Cooke City to the northeast, Gardiner to the north and, of course, West Yellowstone on the west — don't have hard data on how the 1988 fires ...

BILLINGS — In the summer months, Cooke City and Silver Gate are supposed to be bustling with tourists. But this year, there's less hustle in the bustle. Several business owners say the local economy ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Most roads in Yellowstone National Park are about to close to cars and trucks for the year. The National Park Service plans to close all roads Monday except the route from ...

COOKE CITY — If you come this far, you've reached Montana's answer to Key West. Sure, on a certain day just last month, it was 91 degrees cold er here than the Florida Keys, but still: If you come ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Furloughed employees of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks are returning to work with the job of reopening facilities for the final few people who will visit before winter ...

In the late 1800s, hardy mail carriers lashed snowshoes onto their feet to haul mail from the old mining town of Nye City up the Stillwater River drainage to the miners of Cooke City about 40 miles ...