Blue Mountain is one of the few peaks around Missoula that can be reached by road, and you'll find breathtaking views and a forest-fire lookout at road's end.

Elevation gain: 620 feet to "M" (from 3,200 feet to 3,820). 1,958 feet to top of Mount Sentinel (3,200 feet to 5,158) The "M" on the west face of Mount Sentinel has been a Missoula landmark since ...

Few communities enjoy a place quite like the 60,000-acre Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and Wilderness just north of Missoula. Here, you'll find a variety of hiking, backpacking, horseback ...

Mapping Symbols. Symbols that appear on maps in this guide indicating special features of trails. In order from left to right: Point of Interest, Restroom, Parking, Trailhead, Picnic Area ...

The Nez Perce and Salish once traveled through this area to avoid Blackfeet attacks in nearby Hellgate Canyon. Pattee Canyon was named for David Pattee, an early Bitterroot Valley settler and ...

Missoula voters passed a bond issue to buy most of the southwestern face of Mount Jumbo as public open space in 1995. Large herds of elk and deer winter on the steep hillsides, and paragliders ...

Paths along the downtown riverfront are at the heart of Missoula's trail network. Walking, bicycling and, in some places, horseback-riding paths along the Clark's Fork of the Columbia River ...

A cut-off trail gives you the option to go 1.25 or 1.8 miles. Traveling in a clockwise direction, you pass huge cottonwood and ponderosa pine trees.

WOODS GULCH - SHEEP MOUNTAIN TRAIL. Miles: 11 miles to Sheep Mountain. Elevation gain: 3,846 feet (from 3,800 feet to 7,646 feet) Dogs: No restrictions ...

Named in remembrance of Missoula naturalist Kim Williams, the trail follows the old Milwaukee Railroad grade for 2.5 miles through a 134-acre natural area in Hellgate Canyon.

MAIN RATTLESNAKE TRAVEL CORRIDOR. Miles: 15. Elevation gain: 1,248 feet (from 3,850 feet to 5,098 feet) Dogs: From the southern national forest boundary north past the main trailhead to milepost 1 ...