World’s most beautiful highways

The primary drivers climb their way to the 10,947-foot summit of the Beartooth Highway when it opens at 8 a.m. on May 27, 2016, they likely won't see free liquor or a carnival elephant. In any case, for a long time, Red Lodge supporters put on a gathering like no other on the west summit of the pass. They called it the Top of the World Bar. The free liquor, given by Red Lodge bars, was served from a bar cut into a snowbank. Throughout the years, the diversion at the bar raised with an elephant showing up in the mid-1980s, can-can artists kicking their legs amidst the street, and Red Lodge occupant Ernie Strum riding his white steed around the level close to the state line amongst Montana and Wyoming.