Interstate 15, which runs from the Canadian border through Shelby, Great Falls, Helena, Butte and Dillon en route to southern California, is, by comparison, lightly trafficked on its Montana traverse. MDT also estimates that about 11,000 vehicles a day cross the Continental Divide via Homestake Pass just east of Butte. West of Bozeman, between Belgrade and Manhattan, for example, I-90 sees about 19,000 vehicle trips a day. I-90, the east-west route that stretches across the nation from Seattle to Boston, sees heavy traffic as it crosses Montana, especially from Missoula through Billings. 93 between Missoula and Lolo sees about 26,000 vehicles a day on average. Outside city limits, heavy traffic flows clump around common commuter paths - in the Kalispell-Whitefish-Columbia Falls triangle, for example, as well as around Bozeman and down the Bitterroot Valley from Missoula.
Stretches of North Reserve Street in Missoula also rank high on the list, averaging about 36,000 daily trips.
Other busy spots include the city’s Main Street as it heads into Billings Heights from downtown, at about 39,000 trips a day, and a stretch of 10th Avenue South in Great Falls that averages nearly 37,000 trips a day. A stretch of King Avenue West in Billings just north of Interstate 90 has the dubious distinction of being the busiest road in the state, with about 40,000 vehicle trips a day.
It’s the time of year when it seems like everybody and their dog is hitting the road for summer trips, so we thought we’d take a look at which stretches of Montana highway rank as the busiest.Īs it turns out, according to data from the Montana Department of Transportation, the state’s highway hot spots tend to cluster around urban areas. This story is excerpted from the MT Lowdown, a weekly newsletter digest containing original reporting and analysis published every Friday. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.
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