Roads

Road Cameras, Plows, Construction, etc... how does it all work together to make our roads safe and ready for travel?

Driving around Big Sky Country in the summertime is awesome. Winding mountain roads with breathtaking views are taken for granted. But winter's icy embrace will soon tighten its grip on the Treasure State, and seasoned travelers know that negotiating the state's mountainous terrain requires a special level of preparedness and caution...

Driving in Montana can get a little wild at times. For teens, in can be tragic. Here are the top three reasons.

Have you seen these strange-looking devices popping up around Billings? There's a completely logical explanation, but that hasn't stopped some wild speculation.

I90 is now open between Livingston and Big Timber.

A popular stretch of I-90 through Montana closed earlier this morning because of bad road conditions. Reports state that several vehicles were off the road.

Interstate 90 was a parking lot. Traffic came to a complete stand-still many times due to crashes, pile ups, and slide offs. US 93 had dozens of it's own accidents. Montana is having a very rough week on the roads.

Mother nature had a nice tour of Montana over the past 24 hours, dropping a significant amount of snow from the Idaho border to the Dakotas. The Winter Storm Warning that was issued for the entirety of Montana marched across the state, wreaking havoc on travel...

The new beltway will run from Alkali Creek Road to Zimmerman Trail, providing easier access to and from the Heights and Billings West End.

Winter seemed to fly by, eh? In April, a few of the roads into Yellowstone National Park will open to vehicle traffic weather permitting, of course.

First off, is that bullet hole in the windshield, or did he just poke a hole through it so he could see better? Either way, the Montana Highway Patrol says "don't be this guy."

I posted this picture over the weekend on my own Facebook page. And I have several friends, who actually are surveyors and pilots. So, apparently, these are used by pilots and surveyors as part of their mapping. My favorite comment was "This is what Wiley Coyote painted on the road so, he could lure the Roadrunner here and drop an anvil on his head"...