Camping and Travel Daily Image No. 47
Dark Skies, Cooke City, Montana, August 13, 2014
Wikipedia
(Accessed August 9, 2022)
Cooke City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Park County, Montana, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 75. Prior to 2010, it was part of the Cooke City-Silver Gate CDP.
The community sits northeast of Yellowstone National Park on the Beartooth Highway, which leads east to Red Lodge, Montana, on a scenic route climbing to 10,947 feet (3,337 m) in elevation through the Beartooth Mountains and across the Beartooth Plateau. The town’s chief industry is tourism, which during the winter includes skiing and snowmobiling.
It is named for Jay Cooke, financier of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
