Silver Gate, MT

Silver Gate is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Park County, Montana, United States. The 2020 census counted 19 residents. Prior to 2010, it was part of the Cooke City-Silver Gate CDP. The community sits northeast of Yellowstone National Park on the Beartooth Highway. In Silver Gate, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Silver Gate, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places.

Silver Gate is the closest community to the park's Northeast Entrance Station. Silver Gate is in the southeast part of Park County, bordered to the south by the North Absaroka Wilderness within Shoshone National Forest in the state of Wyoming, to the west by Yellowstone National Park, and to the east by Cooke City. The two towns sit in the valley of Soda Butte Creek, which flows southwest into Wyoming to join the Lamar River within Yellowstone Park.