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View from below the Chinese Wall looking south. The Chinese Wall is a large escarpment located in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area in Montana.While definitions of the length of the wall vary (to up to forty miles) the part of the wall that is most well defined and continuous is about twelve miles long. [1]
The Chinese Wall in the Bob Marshall Wilderness is a 1,000 ft (300 m) high feature that runs for 40 miles (64 km). Major passes include Marias Pass and Logan Pass which bisects Glacier National Park east to west.
"The Bob", as it is known by locals and nicknamed by the U.S. Forest Service employees, ranges in altitudes of 4,000 to more than 9,000 feet (1,220 to 2750 m). [1] A long escarpment known as the Chinese Wall averages 1,000 feet (300 m) high from its base and extends for 22 miles (35 km). [1]
Chinese Wall is a 22-mile (35 km) long, 1,000-foot (300 m) tall escarpment located in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. [9] Big Creek Ranger Station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Coram Experimental Forest is an 800-acre (3.2 km 2) experimental western larch forest located in the Flathead National Forest.
The Chinese Wall looms over the CDT in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area (8 July 2017). Many hikers begin or end their journey at Waterton Lake , 4 miles (6.4 km) inside Canada. Leaving the Idaho/Montana border, the Montana portion of the CDT is 627 miles (1,009 km) in length although several alternate routes shorten or lengthen that distance.
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Located about 75 miles (120 km) northeast of Missoula, Montana, the best access is from forest service roads off U.S. Highway 287 and Montana highways 200 and 83. Bugle Mountain (also known as "Bugle Peak"), located in the Scapegoat Wilderness, was the setting of a forest fire in the fictional 1952 motion picture Red Skies of Montana.