Twin Lakes off Beartooth Highway
If you’ve ever entered Yellowstone National Park via the Beartooth Highway, you know just how beautiful and awe-inspiring this seldom-visited stretch of the park is. Most of the time you are towering over glacial lakes and river canyons.
At one point, just South of where the Beartooth Highway crosses over from Montana into Wyoming in the Shoshone National Forest, you’ll come across this stunning vista of the aptly-named “Twin Lakes”. Even well into summer, traces of the winter snowpack can be seen over both lakes. In fact, Beartooth Basin Summer Ski area is just south of this point and supposedly features skiers sometimes into August. Farther in this distance you can see a large canyon carved out by a river over millennia.
I was fortunate on this day to have a dramatic sky with relatively clear air. I didn’t have much time to get my shot but was very pleased with the area to be able to capture the beautiful rocky cliffs in front of me, with the lakes featured in the middle and the plummeting canyon in the distanced, flanked by grassy mesas.
Categories: Lake, LandscapeLocation: Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
Tags: Bearooth Basin Summer Ski Area, Beartooth Highway, Glacial Lakes, Shoshone National Forest, Twin Lakes
Country: USA
Date Taken: August 21, 2021