October weather conditions

[SailorSam20500]

I'm planning my route back from the Bryce/Zion rally. Thinking about taking a northern route going up thru Salt Lake City and Great Falls before heading east on US 2. I saw a video of a guy who took RT 2 from the east coast to Seattle and would like to drive a bit of it on my way home. Not sure what to expect if I'm doing this during the first two weeks of October. Thoughts?

[rsdata]

You should have great weather on US 2 at that time of year... things don't generally get sustainably bad on that route until early to mid-November

depending on forecasts at that time and your final destination, US Rt 20 or US 6 could be alternates

[ppine]

Watch the weather. Your chances are good but the Northern Rockies have some serious weather at times.

[TitanMike]

East of Glacier, it’s like a completely different world as two-lane US-2 (popularly known as the “Hi-Line”) races across glaciated Great Plains rangelands along the many tributaries of the broad Missouri River. A few low buttes and cylindrical grain silos rise up in sharp silhouettes, but the horizon is the dominant aspect, stretching for what feels like hundreds of miles in all directions. Apart from dozens of one-side-of-the-road blink-stops, the towns along US-2 in the eastern stretches of Montana—Culbertson, Wolf Point, Glasgow, Malta, and Havre—are few and far between. It’s here you realize what the “Big Sky Country” is all about: cruising along at 70 mph (113 km/h), pacing a freight train and waving at the engineer, and never passing a gas station when the tank is less than half full.

https://www.roadtripusa.com/the-great-northern/montana/

You may want to do like my late wife and I did when traveling on roads like this---------bring audio books on CD/DVD's. The Eastern part of US-2 in Montana is "miles and miles of miles and miles".

When you've had enough of Montana there's still North Dakota and not a ton of difference.

At least ND tries to help

The state has done what it can to help out bored travelers by eliminating roadside mowing to encourage wildflowers for most of the trip across, opting for native prairie and a potential refuge for wildlife—and roadkill.

[ppine]

Be ready for snow in October.
I have had 10 inches in Wyo by Sept 10.