Dan Jenkins was grilling steaks at Trout Creek Canyon when his neighbor pulled into the campground lot bearing bad news: a speeding sedan had lurched off the highway and smashed through Jenkins’ backyard fence.
“I had to drink several beers after that,” joked Jenkins, who lives with his wife in Sunnybrook Estates, a Montana City subdivision along secondary state Highway 518.
This two-mile stretch of two-lane road is one of the area’s more dangerous non-interstate byways, with a crash rate nearly four times the state average, according to a recent analysis by The Montana Free Press.
