My goal has been to cross from the Idaho side to connect with Montana's scenic Red Rock Pass Road (in the photo), in Centennial Valley. The valley is the locale of the beautiful Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Crossing the Continental Divide via Montana, Idaho's Centennial Mountains
CENTENNIAL VALLEY, Montana -- I long wondered whether there is a route across the Centennial Mountains, a unique east-west-trending Continental Divide range that rises more than 3,000 feet above the valleys that flank it along the Idaho-Montana border.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Historic Bannack, Medicine Lodge roads alluring links between Idaho and Montana
One of the backcountry routes I enjoy the most is the 19th-century road over Bannack Pass, in the Beaverhead Mountains along the Continental Divide between eastern Idaho and southwestern Montana.
More than a century ago, the old Bannack road linked Montana's territorial capital, today's ghost town at Bannack State Park, with Corinne, Utah, not far from the Transcontinental Railroad.
Today, it is a little-traveled single-lane dirt road that combines homestead-era log structures, inspiring northern Rocky Mountain scenery, a gear-soaking stream ford and easy access to a day-long loop.
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