Montana’s Lonely 706-Mile Highway You Need To Drive

What Is The Longest Highway In Montana?

This weekend my family will be heading out for a quick weekend getaway.

We're only driving about 4 hours at most, so it's a pretty quick drive, but if you were to drive Montana's longest highway, it would be an all-day drive for you.

Montana’s Vast Highways And Landscape

Being the 4th largest state in America at 147,042 square miles, Montana unsurprisingly has some very long stretches of highway.

What did surprise me is that the longest highway in Montana is also the longest stretch of state highway of any state in America.

So what highway stretches a full 706.272 miles, from the Idaho border on the west to the North Dakota border in the east?

Discovering Montana’s Longest Highway: Highway 200

That would be Highway 200, also referred to as the "Lonesome Highway" due to the long stretches of isolation.

Here is what AAA has to say about the longest highway in Montana:

Have you driven this road trip? Was it as lonesome as they claim, or was it worthy of a bucket list trip? Let us know by emailing us or messaging us on our app.