Montana Highway 66 (MT 66) is a state highway in the US state of

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. It begins at an intersection with U.S. Highway 191 (US 191) in far southwestern Phillips County and runs northerly to the town of Fort Belknap in Blaine County. Approximately of the northern end of the route is within the boundaries of the

Fort Belknap Indian Reservation The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation ( or ) is shared by two Native American tribes, the A'aninin (Gros Ventre) and the Nakota, Nakoda (Assiniboine). The reservation covers , and is located in north-central Montana. The total area includes the ma ...

, running through the bulk of its territory.

Route description

MT 66 starts at an intersection with US 191 approximately southwest of

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. It proceeds in a generally northwesterly direction, skirting the western edge of the

Little Rocky Mountains The Little Rocky Mountains, also known as the Little Rockies, are a group of buttes, roughly 765 km2 in area, located towards the southern end of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Blaine County and Phillips County in north-central Mo ...

. The road turns north just before crossing the county line from Phillips County into Blaine County, and subsequently enters the

where it remains for the rest of its journey. After passing the small community of Hays on its western edge, the road continues north on a mostly straight route before turning northwest and enters Fort Belknap from the south, before a final turn to the northeast joins MT 66 to

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at a

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History

Before receiving its current designation in 1978, MT 66 was designated as Montana Secondary Highway 376 (S-376).

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