Yellowstone County Highpoint Trip Report

Stratford Hill (4,971 ft)

Date: March 3, 2006
Author: Jim Perkins

This was my first intentional Montana CoHP. We took X447 (South Billings Road) off I-90, drove South 10.2 miles on Blue Creek Road to Cormier Road (a well- maintained gravel road), stayed on Cormier for 11.5 miles through nine 90’s, two 60’s, and nine 45’s until the road turned back north toward Billings. This put us at the corner of Cormier and Stratford Hill Road with a very nice, if somewhat out of place, street sign.

We parked at the corner, spied the windsock, squeezed through the barbed wire fence, dismissed the lionesque March wind, and trekked across the dry grass field the half mile to the top. There is a 2nd grave marker just North of the windsock that is the exact HP as indicated by the survey’s mark.