{"id":841,"date":"2014-10-29T03:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=841"},"modified":"2014-10-29T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T03:31:36","slug":"montana-secondary-highway-509-red-rocks-nwr-to-i-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Montana Secondary Highway 509, Red Rock NWR to I-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">AMP:37<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and Valley Rd, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">S-509 begins here, on the east edge of the Red Rocks National Wildlife Refuge. It&#8217;s a 37 1\/2 mile trek down a washboarded dirt road from here to Monida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>30<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and nothing, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is a pretty desolate road, so desolate that I saw my first moose while driving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>27<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and Lakeview Rd, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A few miles later, we&#8217;ll enter the former ghost town of Lakeview which is now a University of Utah Extension Campus, the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities Education<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and I-15, Monida, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">27 desolate miles later, we&#8217;ll approach I-15. Stay straight for I-15 as we pass by the town of Monida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and I-15, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn right for I-15 north, keep left for I-15 south.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"598\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and I-15, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow I-15 north to Butte and I-15 south to Idaho Falls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and I-15, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left for I-15 south towards Idaho Falls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/mt\/509\/endto15\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S-509 and I-15, Beaverhead Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left to head into Idaho. Idaho begins about 1000 feet south of here on I-15.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/70px-I-15.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=831\">S to ID State Line<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=830\">N to S-324<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMP:37 Location: S-509 and Valley Rd, Beaverhead Cty S-509 begins here, on the east edge of the Red Rocks National Wildlife Refuge. It&#8217;s a 37 1\/2 mile trek down a washboarded dirt road from here to Monida. AMP: 30 Location: S-509 and nothing, Beaverhead Cty This is a pretty desolate road, so desolate that I [&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-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}