{"id":991870,"date":"2009-11-28T22:58:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T05:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/wy\/wyroutes\/?page_id=870"},"modified":"2009-12-05T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T01:12:08","slug":"wyoming-highway-296-wyo-120-to-us-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=991870","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Highway 296, WYO 120 to US-212"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"579\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>46<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and WYO 120, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield at the beginning of WYO 296, a scenic connector route to the Beartooth. From a functional perspective, I guess it would be useful for getting folks from Powell\/Cody to Cooke City MT, but otherwise it&#8217;s just a really scenic drive that connects to other scenic stuff<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>46<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and WYO 120, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not coincidentally, WYO 296 is designated as the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>23<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and Sunlight Rd, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We head up a mountain and then down a mountain and approach Park CR 7GQ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and County Rd, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield in no particular spot to remind us what road we&#8217;re on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and County Rd, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just beyond that reassurance shield, we&#8217;re told 18 miles to junction US-212, 33 miles to Cooke City, Mont.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and US-212, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">18 miles later we approach junction US-212, a US route that&#8217;s sort of an enigma in Wyoming, weaving in and out of the state at opposite corners, passing through very desolate territory in its path<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and US-212, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">US-212 does bear (!) the distinction of being the Beartooth Highway, almost indisputably the most scenic highway stretch in the United States<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/wy\/296\/120to212\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: WYO 296 and US-212, Park Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you like Wyoming, do a u-turn. You can either turn left to wind your way through a valley to Montana or turn right to go over Beartooth Pass into Montana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/US_212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=991799\">E to MT State Line<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=991798\">W to MT State Line<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/WY-120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=991906\">E to US-14 Alt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=991905\">W to WYO 294<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMP: 46 Location: WYO 296 and WYO 120, Park Cty Reassurance shield at the beginning of WYO 296, a scenic connector route to the Beartooth. From a functional perspective, I guess it would be useful for getting folks from Powell\/Cody to Cooke City MT, but otherwise it&#8217;s just a really scenic drive that connects to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991870","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}