"The Plug" is an 8.58-mile stretch of unplowed highway 212 east of Cooke City, Mont. Study was commissioned by tourism entities Park County (Wyo.) Travel Council, Montana’s Yellowstone Country and ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A backcountry avalanche warning has been issued for Cooke City. Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center sent out the following alert: "The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center ...

COOKE CITY — Getting through a winter in Montana’s highest-elevation town is not for the faint of heart. The 80 or so residents who live year-round in Cooke City characterize this winter as a ...

COOKE CITY — Even in a town that gets so much snow every year that dump trucks have to periodically haul it out to keep the streets wide enough to drive, this winter is shaping up to be one for the ...

Bozeman, Mont — A fatal avalanche claimed the life of a snowmobiler north of Cooke City on Saturday. Two brothers, ages 17 and 21, were snowmobiling uphill. The older brother climbed up a steep slope ...

When I pulled up to the Alpine Motel in Cooke City, Montana, just outside Yellowstone National Park in early July, general manager Chad Meador, who was watering flowers, walked over to greet me.

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BOZEMAN, Mont. —State wildlife officials are monitoring a pack of wolves that’s been hanging around Cooke City in recent weeks, following reports of wolves in town at night and the killing of a ...