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Montana Highway 38 (MT 38), also known as Skalkaho Road or Skalkaho Highway is a state highway in the US state of Montana approximately 53.8 miles (86.6 km) long. It provides seasonal direct land connections between the communities of Hamilton on the west and Philipsburg and Anaconda on the east via Skalkaho Pass.
The Skalkaho Pass (Salish: Sq̓x̣q̓x̣ó, "many trails" [1]), 7,258 feet (2,212 m) above sea level, [2] is a pass in the Sapphire Mountains in southwest Montana traversed by Montana Highway 38. [ 3 ]
Skalkaho Highway MT 39 — — Port of Morgan at the Saskatchewan border: Hysham — — Replaced by MT 19 (later S-242) and S-245: MT 39: 51.163: 82.339 US 212 in Lame Deer: North of I-94 near Forsyth: 1977: current MT 40: 4.505: 7.250 US 93 south of Whitefish: US 2 west of Columbia Falls — — MT 41: 54.512: 87.729 I-15 Bus. in Dillon: MT 2 ...
The highway continues along the Lewis and Clark Trail into the Bitterroot Valley toward Missoula, passing through Darby and Hamilton. At Lolo , US 12 joins from the west and they run concurrently northeasterly for 7.5 miles (12.1 km), where US 93 heads due north on Reserve Street in Missoula.
The range is bisected by just two roads, Route 38 at 7250 foot (2210 m) Skalkaho Pass and FS80 at Lutz Creek. Besides West Pintler Peak (considered part of the Anaconda Range), the highest point in the Sapphire Mountains is Kent Peak , located at 46°03.79'N and 113°47.61'W at an elevation of 8999 feet (2743 m).
Caltrans continues clearing Highway 168, but the work is slow because there’s nowhere practical to dump the snow as it’s pushed off the roadway. A contractor is hauling dump truck loads of ...
Principal Montana rivers with the Bitterroot in the west. 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 merged highway then continues eastward, reascending more than 800 feet (240 m) back to the top of the plateau, [4] before SR 285 diverges northward, and SR 30 continues toward the east. Just before reaching the Van Buren- Bledsoe county line, SR 30 intersects SR 284 , which provides the primary access to Fall Creek Falls State Park to the ...