Now if you want one of the best backcountry snowmobiling experiences anywhere in the West, then Cooke City is your place. That's the "big things" we're referring to.
Cooke City has a loyal group of sledders who return year after year for the same reason-backcountry riding and hillclimbing at its finest with some of the deepest powder in the Rockies. Heck, more than 200 inches (207 to be exact) fall in Cooke City (elevation 7,560 feet) and the riding goes up from there. When you consider the high elevation riding, you have the makings for a long riding season, like from November to May.
With terrain like Cooke City offers, it shouldn't come as any surprise that the boys with their big toys like to congregate here to test their horsepower and climbing skills. One of the most fun parts of riding Cooke is that you can climb up and over a saddle and find another spectacular bowl or playground on the other side. And it's not like there's one bowl, but dozens full of powder.
Cooke City sits on the Montana/Wyoming border just outside the eastern edge of Yellowstone National Park and is flanked on the north by a big Wilderness area. Don't let that scare you off. There is still plenty of riding available in the mountains surrounding Cooke City and the Wilderness boundaries are fairly well marked. You've got two mountain ranges surrounding Cooke City on the north, the Absaroka and Beartooth.