About 20 percent of the Montana Trail miles are in six federally designated wilderness areas or wilderness study areas. Designated wilderness areas include Great Bear Wilderness, Bob Marshall [...]
The Montana Trail travels through Glacier National Park and passes very close to Yellowstone National Park. The trail also travels through The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument.
The Montana Trail travels through eight National Forests: Flathead National Forest, Kootenai National Forest, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Beaverhead [...]
The Montana Trail provides approximately 1,700 miles of continuous routing from the Idaho to the North Dakota. Most of the trail, about 80%, is on federal (and state, or just federal?) lands. In [...]
Yes, it is currently possible to do a continuous thru-hike of the entire Montana Trail. In most cases, the paths that connect to form the Montana Trail existed on the ground long before the [...]
The trail is managed by federal and state land managers and local private property owners. The Montana Trail 406 Association intends to support land managers in the future as the Montana Trail [...]
