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S-211 west (Round Butte Road) Connects to Hot Springs via Sloan Road and Little Bitterroot Road: Polson: 160.033: 257.548: MT 35 north – Bigfork: Flathead Lake east lakeshore route: 161.966: 260.659: S-354 south (Main Street) Access to SKQ Dam: Elmo: 178.484: 287.242: MT 28 west – Hot Springs, Plains: Dayton: 183.787: 295.777: S-352 west ...
The Bridger Trail, also known as the Bridger Road and Bridger Immigrant Road, was an overland route connecting the Oregon Trail to the gold fields of Montana. Gold was discovered in Virginia City, Montana in 1863, prompting settlers and prospectors to find a trail to travel from central Wyoming to Montana.
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 ...
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 ...
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)."
Pages in category "Historic trails and roads in Montana" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Before the establishment of the United States Numbered Highway System, a transcontinental road called the Yellowstone Trail ran through Montana. This trail overlapped much of what would become US 10 and later I-90. US 10 completely replaced the Yellowstone Trail in Montana by 1930. [3] US 10 was one of the first U.S. Highways established in 1926.