Well, just got back last Saturday from our adventure and it was amazing. Montana is a rider's paradise.
We trailered to Bozeman on 6/30, slept, and on the 1st we rode thru the North side of YNP and took in some of the attractions, but bailed out to the North-East entrance on to the Beartooth given all of the traffic in the park. The Beartooth was amazing, just a spectacular ride. We really wish we would have skipped the park that morning and rode the Josheph Highway instead.
On the 2nd we woke early and headed west out of Bozeman onto Highway 2 on to Highway 69 and headed towards Helena thru Boulder, MT running just to the west of the Elk Horn Mtns as far as we could. Once in Helena we headed west on 279 and took a left when we got to 200, and had just one spectacular ride over Fletcher's Pass. We continued to the North thru Swan Lake on to the Flathead to end up staying the night in Kallispel. If you ever have the time to stop in this town, I highly recommend the Fillet at Mot's. Such a great dinner.
We spend 2 nights in Kallispel due to weather (rain). And eventually made it over the Road to the Sun. We all loved the ride, but I suggest one look into the road conditions when going thru Glacier N.P. They currently have 3 miles of the road down to the dirt. And I am fine with the dirt, but they have applied a SERIOUS amount of brine to the dirt to help keep it firm and not washing away in the rain. The combination of brine and ground up tar they have put down built up a 1/2" thick crust of crud that looked like and turned out to be as tough as spray-in-bedliner on my headers, jammed into the radiator, and coated my CS-One with tar all the way up. It took 16 hours of work and 3 gallons of gasoline (the only thing I could find that would cut that stuff). Had to drain the coolant, remove the radiator, all of the exhaust, etc.........). Had we known, we would have rode in from the East and out from the East.
On the 4th we rode South on Highway 89, thru Helena from the North and hopped on Highway 15, and thought it was expressway, the scenery was great, and eventually we made it back to the truck in Bozeman on the night of the 4th to take in PBR's and Pizza in the hotel parking lot while watching downtown Bozeman celebrate the 4th.