Great Divide, Frequency of towns and cell phone coverage

[AlaskaDave]

My buddies and I start the GDR on Saturday and we are trying to figure out how often we will have cell phone coverage. Every town or so? If so, what how often does one pass through a town, approximately?

Thanks

[Iowagriz]

Timing, or course, depends on mileage per day.  If you can hold 75 miles a day, you should pass thru cell coverage each day.

I can speak for Montana that you should have coverage at each of the "towns".  Eureka, Whitefish, Columbia Falls, Bigfork and some down the Swan Lake to Seeley Lake valley.  Lincoln, Helena, Butte, all good.  Probably ok south to Lima since you are relatively close to I15.

[JayH]

And you will even have cell coverage in many places high up outside of town on the ridgelines where there is little/less trees and good line of sight. I know my friends had some pretty good cell coverage for most of the trip I was with.

Jay   

[tex232]

Once I got into the states (no good Verizon plan for Canadian data), I don't think I've been more than a day without data, whether via cell or WiFi.