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Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park is a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) public recreation and nature preservation area located twelve miles (19 km) east of Whitehall in Jefferson County, Montana. The state park includes two visitor centers, ten miles of hiking trails, a campground, and its namesake limestone caverns . [ 2 ]
The Caverns at Natural Bridge; Clarks Cave; Dixie Caverns; Endless Caverns; Gap Cave; Grand Caverns, formerly "Weyer's cave" Indian Jim's Cave; Luray Caverns; Melrose Caverns; Natural Tunnel; Ogdens Cave; Shenandoah Caverns; Skyline Caverns; Stay High Cave; Unthanks Cave
The Lewis and Clark Caverns are named so after the idea that the explorers had passed by twice on their journies, not knowing it existed. The Natives in the area had stories about it as in the winter, steam would rise out of the cave mouth which is the phenomenon that produced its discovery in the first place.
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Created by an act of Congress in 1972, the wilderness is located in the Helena-Lewis and Clark and Lolo National Forests. The Scapegoat Wilderness is a part of the 1.5 million acre (6,070 km 2 ) Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex as it shares a boundary with the Bob Marshall Wilderness , which in turn is connected to the Great Bear Wilderness ...
A map in Fenneman's Physiography of Western United States (1931) shows a long Jefferson Range to include what is now called the Tobacco Roots plus the Gravelly Range. Oil Company highway maps from the late 1960s and early 1970s show "Tobacco Root Mountains" in the north, and "Jefferson Range" in the south (northwest of Ennis and north of ...
The region was inhabited by various cultures of Native Americans for a period of at least 8,000–10,000 years. When the Lewis and Clark Expedition came to this area, different areas of the large forest territory were used by members of the Blackfeet, Sioux, Cheyenne, Flathead and Crow nations for hunting and as an area for their seasonal ...