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The Montana Trail was a wagon road that served gold rush towns such as Bannack, Virginia City and later Helena during the Montana gold rush era of the 1860s and 1870s. Miners and settlers all traveled the trail to try to find better lives in Montana. The trail was also utilized for freighting and shipping supplies and food goods to Montana from ...
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Bozeman Trail marker. There are at least 993 named trails in Montana according to the U.S. Geological Survey, Board of Geographic Names.A trail is defined as: "Route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail)."
Trail Ridge Road took that lofty vision and ran with it, highlighting why it was designated an All-American Road in 1996. Here, the road touched 12,000 feet above sea level, an elevation beyond ...
Montana's secondary system was established in 1942, [4] but secondary highways (S routes) were not signed until the 1960s. [1] S route designations first appeared on the state highway map in 1960 [5] and are abbreviated as "S-nnn". Route numbers 201 and higher are, with very few exceptions, exclusively reserved for S routes.
S-424 is a paved two-lane road throughout. In the state road log, S-424 is a combined urban and secondary route, but is only currently signed outside the Kalispell city limits. Corridor C000424 comprises U-6706 (Three Mile Drive/Farm to Market Road) and S-424. [3] Farm to Market Road can be seen on the 1935 map as an all-weather gravel road. [10]
The Bozeman Trail was an overland route in the Western United States, connecting the gold rush territory of southern Montana to the Oregon Trail in eastern Wyoming. Its important period was from 1863 to 1868. While the major part of the route used by Bozeman Trail travelers in 1864 was pioneered by Allen Hurlbut, it was named after John Bozeman ...
Winter Trails Montana: The Best Cross-Country Ski & Snowshoe Trails. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot. ISBN 0-7627-0730-5. Spring, Ira (1974). Wilderness trails Northwest;: A hiker's and climber's overview-guide to national parks and wilderness areas in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Northern California, . British Columbia, Canadian Rockies. Touchstone Press.