Hamilton Montana Real Estate

Hamilton Real Estate

Bitterroot Valley Real Estate

Hamilton Montana is in Ravalli County
The Hamilton Montana area includes Florence, Stevensville, Victor, Corvallis, Pinesdale, Hamilton, Grantsdale, Darby, Conner and Sula.

Bitterroot Valley Northwest Montana

Ravalli County Real Estate

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the Bitterroot National Forest Montana

 Welcome To The Bitterroot Valley

the Bitterroot Valley Wilderness

Wilderness Area

The Bitterroot National Forest is a spectacular 1.6 million acre forest in southwestern Montana and Idaho. Half of the Bitterroot National Forest is composed of the protected Selway Bitterroot, Frank church River of No Return, and the Anaconda Pintler wilderness areas. These highly glaciated and rugged peaks are popular hiking, hunting and fishing grounds filled with elk, deer, moose, bear, and numerous smaller species.

Selway-Bitterroot is the third largest Wilderness in the Lower 48, surpassed in size only by California's Death Valley Wilderness and Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (RONR). More remarkable yet, is the fact that the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness borders the Selway-Bitterroot to the south- making this area clearly the largest expanse of wilderness land in the lower 48 states. Only the 600-foot-wide Nez Perce Trail (The Magruder Corridor), an unimproved dirt road, separates the Selway-Bitterroot from the Frank Church-RONR.

If you are looking for wilderness life or adventure, the Hamilton Montana area is the place for you. The Wilderness straddles both sides of the Bitterroot Range, which stands along the Montana-Idaho border and includes the Wild and Scenic Selway River, all of which flows through Idaho.

This large wilderness is one of the roughest and most scenic mountain areas on earth. Range after range displays high ridges dropping off into steep-walled canyons. The barren peaks line dense forests below. The wilderness is teaming with beautiful clear streams and more than 100 lakes. Great trout fishing everywhere, along with populations of Moose, elk, deer, bear, wolves, mountain lions, eagles and other wildlife.

Many miles of trails provide access to the Montana side of the Selway-Bitterroot, but large sections are unmaintained and rugged. The Divide Trail (Trail 16) follows the Bitterroot Divide for approximately seven miles north of Nez Perce Pass, offering outstanding views across the Montana and Idaho portions of the Wilderness.

Fishing, Fly Fishing in the Bitterroot Valley

The Hamilton Montana area boasts some of the best hunting and fishing areas in the world (or so we like to think). There is easy access out of Hamilton into miles of trails filled with big game, and ripe with fish.

The Bitterroot River is a Blue Ribbon trout stream. Brook Trout, Brown, Bull, Cutthroat, cutthroat/rainbow cross and Rainbow Trout as well as Mountain Whitefish are native to the Bitterroot River. State fishing access sites along the River are spaced around five to ten mile intervals, allowing wading anglers key entry points and providing floaters with options for full or half-day trips.The high alpine lakes of the Bitterroot Mountains also offer superb fishing, some requiring a bit of a hike to get too, but well worth it. The largest of these lakes and most popular recreation area for water sports is Lake Como, easily accessible it contains both cutthroat and rainbow trout.