U.S. Route 212
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| U.S. Route 212 | |||||
| Length: | 949 mi (1527 km) | ||||
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| Formed: | 1926 | ||||
| West end: | Yellowstone National Park | ||||
| East end: |  in Eden Prairie, MN |
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U.S. Highway 212 is a spur of U.S. Highway 12 (though it never actually intersects US-12 nowadays, it once had an eastern terminus at US-12 in St. Paul, Minnesota). It currently runs for 949 miles (1,527 km) from Edina, Minnesota at Minnesota State Highway 62 to Yellowstone National Park. It passes through the states of Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. It goes through the cities of Watertown, South Dakota and Billings, Montana.
The section of Highway 212 between Red Lodge, Montana and Cooke City, Montana is known as the Beartooth Highway, which the late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt called "the most beautiful drive in America."
In Chaska and Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US-212 is being realigned to a new freeway alignment. Part of this new alignment is already constructed between Valley View Road (Hennepin-39) and Eden Prairie Road (Hennepin-4) and temporarily designated a MN-312 until such time as the freeway is completed. This new freeway will have a designated shoulder on both sides that will be exclusive service to buses for a planned Bus Rapid Transit Route starting from Carver, MN and points onward along the freeway. This would help congestion from the exploding populations of the places that the new freeway will serve.
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