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Communities within the valley include: Lolo in Missoula County; and Florence, Stevensville, Victor, Corvallis, Hamilton, Darby, Conner, and Sula in Ravalli County. Hamilton, the largest town and the county seat of Ravalli County, is located at 46°14.8'N and 114°09.6'W at an elevation of 3,570 feet (1,090 m) with a population of 12,000.
Ravalli County Museum has a total of 9 exhibit galleries, with five of the galleries housing permanent exhibits. “The Discovery: Lewis & Clark Meet the Salish in the Bitter Root,” is a display that depicts the story of the historic encounter between the Salish Tribe and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the Bitterroot Valley, just before they crossed the Continental Divide in 1805.
The Northern Bitterroot Range is the northernmost and shortest subrange of the Bitterroot Mountains. The Northern Bitterroots encompass 1,869 square miles (4,841 km 2 ) and its two tallest peaks are the 7,930 foot (2,417 m) Rhodes Peak and the 7,770 foot (2,368 m) Quartz Benchmark .
Trapper Peak is the highest point in the Bitterroot Mountains, part of the larger Bitterroot Range in western Montana. It rises over 6,000 feet (1,830 m) above the nearby Bitterroot Valley . The peak is located within the Central Bitterroot Range , a subrange of the Bitterroot Mountains and within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area of the ...
Florence is located between the Sapphire and Bitterroot Mountains. The Bitterroot River is to the east. The Threemile Wildlife Management Area, about 15 miles (24 km) east, provides a winter range habitat for big game. [6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.77 square miles (2.0 km 2), all land. [7]
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 pass is the highest point of the historic Lolo Trail, between the Bitterroot Valley in Montana and the Weippe Prairie in Idaho. The trail, known as naptnišaqs , or "Nez Perce Trail" in Salish , [ 2 ] was used by Nez Perce in the 18th century, and by the Lewis and Clark Expedition , guided by Old Toby of the Shoshone , on their westward ...
The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At 1.3 million acres (5,300 km²), it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United States (14th overall, but third-largest outside Alaska ).