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The Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest is the largest of the National Forests in Montana, United States. Covering 3.36 million acres (13,600 km 2), the forest is broken into nine separate sections and stretches across eight counties in the southwestern area of the state.
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 Virginia City). Preliminary topographic maps of the area (Bureau of Reclamation, Missouri Basin Project) from 1947 to 1948 show Jefferson Range, but on the 1950 15-minute ...
Nearly all the range is part of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. In the northern part of the range is the Bureau of Land Management's Axolotl Lakes Wilderness Study Area, 7,804 acres in size, which is part of a larger roadless area of 47,000 acres. [2] The Axolotl Lakes WSA is home to a unique form of indigenous tiger salamander. [2]
The mountain is located in Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. (There is also another Mount Jefferson in Montana, further south, on the Idaho/Montana border.) Hollowtop Mountain is an adjacent, taller peak less than .75 miles (1.2 km) to the north. Over the years, the two summits have had numerous names and elevations recorded on various maps.
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
Local map of Big Hole Pass. Big Hole Pass (elevation: 7,055 feet (2,150 m)) is a high mountain pass in the northern Rocky Mountains of the western United States.It is on the Montana–Idaho border, approximately eight miles (13 km) due south of Montana State Highway 43 in the Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest in Beaverhead County, Montana, [1] and Salmon National Forest in Lemhi County ...
Lemhi Pass is a high mountain pass in the Beaverhead Mountains, part of the Bitterroot Range in the Rocky Mountains and within Salmon-Challis National Forest. The pass lies on the Montana-Idaho border on the Continental Divide, at an elevation of 7,373 feet (2,247 m) above sea level. It is accessed via Lemhi Pass Road in Montana, and the Lewis ...
The Pioneer Mountains cover 2,000 square miles (5,200 km 2) in Beaverhead County in southwestern Montana, USA. The highest peaks in this range include: [1] Tweedy Mountain (11,154 ft or 3,400 m) Torrey Mountain (11,147 ft or 3,398 m) Baldy Mountain (10,568 ft or 3,221 m) Mount Fleecer (9,436 ft or 2,876 m) Odell Mountain (9,405 ft or 2,867 m)