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The Bitterroot River is a northward flowing 84-mile (135 km) [2] river running through the Bitterroot Valley, from the confluence of its West and East forks near Conner in southern Ravalli County to its confluence with the Clark Fork River near Missoula in Missoula County, in western Montana. The Clark Fork River is a tributary to the Columbia ...
Bitterroot Valley. Coordinates: 46.247°N 114.160°W. Bitterroot Valley, from St. Mary's Peak in the Bitterroot Range. View of northern valley, northeast from El Capitan Peak in the Bitterroot National Forest. The Bitterroot Valley is located in southwestern Montana, along the Bitterroot River between the Bitterroot Range and Sapphire Mountains ...
U.S. Forest Service. Website. Bitterroot National Forest. Wildfire in the forest as photographed on August 6, 2000. Bitterroot National Forest comprises 1.587 million acres (6,423 km 2) in west-central Montana and eastern Idaho of the United States. It is located primarily in Ravalli County, Montana (70.26% of the forest), but also has acreage ...
The mountains are bordered on the north by Lolo Creek, to the northeast by the Clark Fork, on the south by the Salmon River, on the east by the Bitterroot River and Valley, and on the west by the Selway and Lochsa Rivers. [2] Its highest summit is Trapper Peak, at 10,157 feet (3,096 m).
It is a 1936-pattern L-4 lookout. [1] It is a volunteer-staffed lookout located in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, and it also overlooks the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness to the north. [2] It is at elevation of 8,943 feet (2,726 m). [3] Salmon Mountain is located in the Idaho portion of the West Fork in the Frank Church River Of ...
1,340,460 acres (5,424.6 km 2) Established. January 1, 1964. Governing body. U.S. Forest Service. The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States. [1][2] At 1.3 million acres (5,300 km²), it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United ...
The Bitterroot Range is a mountain range and a subrange of the Rocky Mountains that runs along the border of Montana and Idaho in the northwestern United States. The range spans an area of 24,223 square miles (62,740 km 2) and is named after the bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva), a small pink flower that is the state flower of Montana. [1][2]
Little Bitterroot River is in northwestern Montana. It in the mountains west of Kalispell north of Marion or about 25 miles (40 km) west-northwest of Flathead Lake. It flows south-southeastward for 65 miles (105 km) to the Flathead River, which goes into the Clark Fork of the Columbia. [ 2] The basin covers about 600 square miles (1,600 km 2 ...