On State Highway 200 at milepost 31 at State Highway 83, on the right when traveling east on State Highway 200.
For millennia, the Blackfoot River corridor has been part of the homeland of the Salish and Pend d'Oreille people. They and visiting members of other tribes used a vast network of trails to criss-cross this region of great abundance -- rich in game, . . . — — Map (db m123101) HM
On State Highway 200 at State Highway 83, on the right when traveling east on State Highway 200.
By 1900 the Big Blackfoot Milling Company had largely depleted its nearby timber supplies and moved further up the Blackfoot. The mill, now owned by the Anaconda Company, got most of its timber from logs cut and dumped into the river and floated . . . — — Map (db m123103) HM
On State Highway 200 at milepost 32 near State Road 83, on the left when traveling west.
Railroad logging was an important facet of the history of Montana's lumber industry. The Big Blackfoot Railroad was one of several logging railroads created to sustain the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's sawmill at Bonner. Built by the Chicago, . . . — — Map (db m144065) HM
On Garnet Range Road, 0.1 miles south of State Highway 200, on the left when traveling south.
Once, the Garnet Mountains echoed with the blasts of dynamite, the clatter of hooves on steep, narrow roads, and the shouts of men out to find fortune.
Once, miners swapped stories in the saloons of Beartown, Top O'Deep and Reynolds City — . . . — — Map (db m130332) HM
On Garnet Range Road, 2.6 miles south of State Highway 200, on the left when traveling south.
Foresters at Lubrecht Experimental Forest study tree harvest and growth in a landscape shaped by logging. The first large-scale logging in Montana occurred on the Blackfoot River corridor in 1885.
From 1885-1900, loggers prodded oxen to skid . . . — — Map (db m130333) HM
On State Highway 200 at milepost 31 at State Highway 83, on the right when traveling east on State Highway 200.
Highway 200 near this rest area passes through one of the most spectacular ice-age landscapes in Montana. Glaciers advanced out to the Mission and Swan ranges, and the mountains in the Bob Marshall-Scapegoat wildernesses, forming an ice cap that . . . — — Map (db m123100) HM
