Road trip guide: Conquering Badger Pass in MT
Badger Pass is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 2.063m (6,768ft) above the sea level, located in Beaverhead County, in the U.S. state of Montana.
![Badger Pass](https://www.dangerousroads.org/cache/images/900x/9/badgerpass0-e0f54f27.jpg)
The road to the summit is totally paved. It’s called Montana State Highway 278 (MT-278). The drive offers spectacular views of the Pioneer Mountain Range. The drive is steep, hitting a 9% of maximum gradient through some of the ramps.
The pass road is 97.68 km (60.7 miles) long, running north-southeast from Wisdom to Dillon, the county seat of Beaverhead County.