Cooke City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Park County, Montana, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 77.^[3] Prior to 2010, it was part of the Cooke City-Silver Gate CDP.

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Cooke City, Montana
Census-designated place
Entering Cooke City from the east
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Coordinates: 45°1′10″N 109°56′4″W
Country	United States
State	Montana
County	Park
Area [1]
• Total	9.54 sq mi (24.70 km2)
• Land	9.54 sq mi (24.70 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	7,580 ft (2,310 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	77
• Density	8.08/sq mi (3.12/km2)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP Code	59020
Area code	406
FIPS code	30-17350
GNIS feature ID	2583800[2]

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The community sits northeast of Yellowstone National Park on the Beartooth Highway, which leads east to Red Lodge, Montana, on a scenic route climbing to 10,947 feet (3,337 m) in elevation through the Beartooth Mountains and across the Beartooth Plateau. The town's chief industry is tourism, which during the winter includes skiing and snowmobiling.

It is named for Jay Cooke, financier of the Northern Pacific Railroad.^[4]

Cooke City is near the southeast corner of Park County, bordered to the south by the North Absaroka Wilderness within Shoshone National Forest in the state of Wyoming, and to the west by the community of Silver Gate, Montana. The two towns sit in the valley of Soda Butte Creek, which flows southwest into Wyoming to join the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park. The valley is part of the Yellowstone River watershed.

U.S. Route 212, the Beartooth Highway, passes through the center of Cooke City, leading southwest into Yellowstone National Park, and east over 8,040-foot (2,450 m) Colter Pass in the eastern part of the CDP to continue southeast back into Wyoming in the valley of the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River and thence into the Beartooth Mountains.