Lost In Montana

[TobaccorRoad]

I used to carry a camera in the truck all the time.
This one, camera unknown
Taken in the late 1960s.

[Julio1fer]

On the straight road, indeed.

How about some detective work? Where exactly was this one taken?

It looks like sand all around, and do I see a white marker on the right? Are those mountains, far on the left? or just clouds? Time of day could be found from the shadows.

The road surface got some asphalt covering of gaps. It seems that your side of the road was more heavily used than the opposite one.

[PFMcFarland]

I'm going to say US-87, between Havre, and Great Falls.

PF

[TobaccorRoad]

I just looked at a map and I believe it was highway Mt.43 {odd numbers go north and south} It is interstate 15 now. This picture was taken just south of Butte Mt.
This photo was taken before the interstates were built. I was hauling boat trailers then, had to be the mid sixties.
And yes those are mountains, and sort of sandy in spots, wind would blow it over the road, making hazardous at times.
Helena is just beyond the mountains.

[LarryD]

That is what I would figure too. Montana was a strange state. A little bit of everything along the roads.

[Julio1fer]

I would have never expected these landscapes in Montana. Especially the sand.

[LarryD]

Oh my. I lived where the plains met the foothills to the Rockies. We had everything within 40 miles including cactus fields.

[scott]

Doesn't look like West Yellowstone. Farthest I've been into Montana is about a mile from the west entrance of Yellowstone. On my want-to-go-there list.