Late Season Snow Closes Beartooth Pass By Yellowstone

Summer may have arrived a few days earlier, but it didn't seem like it Tuesday to visitors and residents in the mountain country along the Wyoming-Montana border after heavy, wet snow closed a major pass and collapsed camping tents.

"It's been really a miserable day," said Rand Herzberg, ranger for the Red Lodge, Mont.-based Beartooth Ranger District of the Custer National Forest. "It's not what you'd expect."

Beartooth Pass, at the 10,940-foot elevation east of Yellowstone National Park, was closed Monday night and most of Tuesday because of drifts up to 18 inches deep, blocking a key route to the park and causing a 160-mile detour.

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