Montana Wildernesses

UL Bend Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 135
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=616
Wilderness | UL Bend Wilderness
State | MT
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 2/25/2019
WID | 616
Abbreviated Name | UL_Bend
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ULBend.jpg
Acreage | 20819
Description | Approximately 125 miles up the Fort Peck Reservoir and the Missouri River from the Fort Peck Dam, you'll find the UL Bend Wilderness. Situated within the UL Bend and Charles M. Russell National Wildlife...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 616FWS
Designated | 1976
ORIG_FID | 41381

Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 137
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=488
Wilderness | Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
State | MT
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 2/25/2019
WID | 488
Abbreviated Name | Red_Rock_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RedRockLakes.jpg
Acreage | 32350
Description | The rugged Centennial Mountains, rising to more than 9,000 feet, hang above the Centennial Valley wetlands and provide a dramatic backdrop for the remote Red Rock Lakes Wilderness. It was here, in the...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 488FWS
Designated | 1976
ORIG_FID | 41383

Medicine Lake Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 138
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=350
Wilderness | Medicine Lake Wilderness
State | MT
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 2/25/2019
WID | 350
Abbreviated Name | Medicine_Lake
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/medicineLake.jpg
Acreage | 11366
Description | Medicine Lake Wilderness lies within the glacial drift prairie of northeastern Montana. The gentle rolling hills and numerous shallow wetland depressions were created by repeated advances and retreats...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 350FWS
Designated | 1976
ORIG_FID | 41384

Lee Metcalf Wilderness
Wilderness | Lee Metcalf Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Lee_Metcalf
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LeeMetcalf.jpg
Description | The Lee Metcalf Wilderness consists of four separate units distributed across the Madison Range in southwest Montana. The Bear Trap Canyon unit is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and is the...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 316BLM

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
Wilderness | Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
State | MT/WY
Abbreviated Name | Absaroka_Beartooth
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AbsarokaBeartooth.jpg
Description | The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness is located in south central Montana, with a small portion in northern Wyoming, just north of Yellowstone National Park. The Wilderness is home to Montana's tallest peak...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 1FS

Anaconda Pintler Wilderness
Wilderness | Anaconda Pintler Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Anaconda_Pintler
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AnacondaPintler.jpg
Description | One of the jewels of the Northern Rockies, the Anaconda Pintler Wilderness, managed by the Forest Service, encompasses 158,615 acres in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge and Bitterroot national forests. It was...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 10FS

Bob Marshall Wilderness
Wilderness | Bob Marshall Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bob_Marshall
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BobMarshall.jpg
Description | The Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex Located in Northwestern Montana on both sides of the Continental Divide, this large complex includes three Wilderness areas: the Great Bear, the Scapegoat, and the Bob...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 64FS

Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cabinet_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CabinetMountains.jpg
Description | The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness is a 35 mile long range of glaciated peaks and valleys trending north and south. The wilderness is framed by the Kootenai River on the north, the Clark Fork River on the...

Gates of the Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Gates of the Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Gates_of_the_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/gatesmtns.jpg
Description | Two sons of Chevalier Vendrye, the French explorer, passed through the area known as the Gates of the Mountains as early as 1742. They were probably the first white men to gaze upon its precipices. However...

Great Bear Wilderness
Wilderness | Great Bear Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Great_Bear
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GreatBear.jpg
Description | The Great Bear Wilderness is part of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Located in Northwestern Montana on both sides of the Continental Divide, the complex includes three Wilderness areas: the Great...

Mission Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Mission Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mission_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MissionMountains.jpg
Description | The Mission Mountains are a land of ragged peaks with snow on them most of the year, small active glaciers, alpine lakes, meadows, clear streams that run icy cold, slab-like boulders, vertical cliff faces...

Lee Metcalf Wilderness
Wilderness | Lee Metcalf Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Lee_Metcalf
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LeeMetcalf.jpg
Description | The Lee Metcalf Wilderness consists of four separate units distributed across the Madison Range in southwest Montana. The Bear Trap Canyon unit is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and is the...

Rattlesnake Wilderness
Wilderness | Rattlesnake Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rattlesnake
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Rattlesnake.jpg
Description | The Rattlesnake Mountains, located four miles north of Missoula, Montana, form a rugged and scenic vista for the Missoula Valley. The Rattlesnake Wilderness receives its name from Rattlesnake Creek which...

Scapegoat Wilderness
Wilderness | Scapegoat Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Scapegoat
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Scapegoat.jpg
Description | The Scapegoat Wilderness is part of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Located in Northwestern Montana on both sides of the Continental Divide, this large complex includes three Wilderness areas: the...

Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
Wilderness | Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
State | ID/MT
Abbreviated Name | Selway_Bitterroot
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SelwayBitterroot.jpg
Description | The Bitterroot Mountains form a rugged, glacier-carved border between Idaho and Montana. On both sides of this border is the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, the third largest Wilderness in the Lower 48....

Welcome Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Welcome Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Welcome_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WelcomeCreek.jpg
Description | The Welcome Creek Wilderness is located in the Rock Creek drainage 25 miles east of Missoula, Montana. This 28,135 acre wilderness measures, approximately, nine miles by seven miles. The ridges are steep...