Oregonian

Blodgett Canyon, Trapper Peak steep-walled gems of Montana Bitterroot Mountains (video)

You don't need to drive to Glacier National Park to see the Rocky Mountains of Montana at their best. Take a right turn at Lolo, the first Montana city when driving U.S. 12 east into Montana from ...
Oregonian

Darby Ranger Station showcases gear used in Bitterroot Range from bygone Forest Service era

The historic Darby Ranger Station in Darby, Mont., is not far from Trapper Peak, at 10,157 feet the high point of the main Bitterroot Range in Montana, and Lake Como, the showcase recreation site of ...
Missoulian

200 years after Lewis and Clark crossed the Bitterroot Range and beheld a beautiful prairie spread before them, visitors from all over will get to experience the same excitement

LOCHSA LODGE, Idaho - On Sept. 19, 1805, after slogging for over a week across the rugged mountains of the Bitterroot Range, Meriwether Lewis wrote in his journal, "Set out this morning a little after ...
NBC Montana

Fire danger in Bitterroot National Forest raised to high

MISSOULA, Mont. — Fire danger in the Bitterroot National Forest has been raised to high. High pressure will remain in control today. With fires burning in the surrounding area, air quality will ...
Missoulian

The Bitterroot River runs through Montana history

RICK AND SUSIE GRAETZ University of Montana Department of Geography Though its length is short in comparison to other major Montana rivers, the landscape the Bitterroot River flows through is long in ...