{"id":2618,"date":"2015-11-14T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2020-08-24T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:22:16","slug":"montana-secondary-highway-556-us-2-to-mt-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"Montana Secondary Highway 556, US-2 to MT-200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/556\/2to200\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP:\u00a0<\/strong>44<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Thompson River Rd and US-2, Flathead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield as S-556 begins. 556 is unpaved for its entire length, but fairly scenic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/556\/2to200\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"603\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP:\u00a0<\/strong>37<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Thompson River Rd and Plum Creek Rd, Flathead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0This is really kind of an odd highway, in that it&#8217;s mostly been bypassed by a private road maintained by Plum Creek, that allows public access. With the exception of this small segment about seven miles south of US-2, they&#8217;ll run on separate, parallel rights of way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/556\/2to200\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP:\u00a0<\/strong>35<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Plum Creek Rd and Thompson River Rd, Sanders Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Keep right here to continue on S-556, as we leave the private Plum Creek Rd and join the Sanders County road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/556\/2to200\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP:\u00a0<\/strong>32<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Thompson River Rd and Plum Creek Rd, Sanders Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The county road mostly very closely parallels Plum Creek&#8217;s privately maintained but publicly accessible road, leaving this road to a state of more disrepair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/556\/2to200\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP:\u00a0<\/strong>28<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Thompson River Rd and Plum Creek Rd, Sanders Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A couple miles later, we&#8217;ll cross the Plum Creek road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/556\/2to200\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP<\/strong>: 4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Thompson River Rd and Forest Rd, Sanders Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Several miles later, pavement begins on the county\/state road. At this point, Plum Creek&#8217;s road is on the other side of the Thompson River.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/556\/2to200\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"493\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP:\u00a0<\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Thompson River Rd and MT-200, Sanders Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shortly after that, we&#8217;ll approach MT-200, which has no signs due to construction. Follow 200 west to Thompson Falls and 200 east to Plains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/montana200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=241\">W to S-472<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=240\">E to MT-28<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/120px-US_2.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=970\">E to US-93 Alt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=969\">W to S-482<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMP:\u00a044 Location: Thompson River Rd and US-2, Flathead Cty Reassurance shield as S-556 begins. 556 is unpaved for its entire length, but fairly scenic. AMP:\u00a037 Location: Thompson River Rd and Plum Creek Rd, Flathead Cty \u00a0This is really kind of an odd highway, in that it&#8217;s mostly been bypassed by a private road maintained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}