Montana hiking trails - Carlton Lake Trail, Bitterroot Range, Missoula County
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Latitude: 46.68833 Longitude: -114.185
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| | Carlton Lake Trail is a long drive away from Missoula but it is a really good trail. This part of Montana has a great deal of available outdoors activities. Ok, you've been cooped up too long, time to get out in nature a bit and Carlton Lake Trail in Missoula County, Montana is the outdoors at it's best. Throughout the warm days of summer highs here at Carlton Lake Trail reach the 80's. For the duration of the dark hours of summer temperatures plunge down into the 50's. The cold days of the wintertime come with highs in the 20's; after the sun is down |
during the winter temperatures at Carlton Lake Trail fall into the 10's. This spot, the Bitterroot Range, has so much outdoors fun stuff. You can run the rapids of Kootenai Creek close to Carlton Lake Trail, and camping at Square Dance Center and Campground is always a great experience.
| Mill Creek is a glorious whitewater spot in close proximity to Carlton Lake Trail; if you came to camp Fort Fizzle Campground is a tremendous spot to do that. Hiking trails like this one are plentyful in the Bitterroot Range where wonderful nature is waiting for you. It is very arid here at Carlton Lake Trail usually; May is when you get the most rain here, and the driest of the months is October.
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| These outdoors activities are available near Carlton Lake Trail. |
| | Trails Near Carlton Lake Trail:
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Mill Creek Trail, Missoula County
, 3 miles away |
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Sweeney Ridge Trail, Ravalli County
, 3 miles away |
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BLue Mountain Nature Trail NRT, Missoula County
, 9 miles away |
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Blue Mountain Equestrian and Hiking Trail, Missoula County
, 9 miles away |
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Saint Mary Peak Trail, Ravalli County
, 9 miles away |
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Sally Ridge Trail, Missoula County
, 17 miles away |
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| | Whitewater Near Carlton Lake Trail:
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Kootenai Creek, Ravali County
County
, 9 miles away, Class IV - 1 miles long (trailside) |
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Mill Creek, Missoula County
County
, 17 miles away, Class V - 2 miles long (along Mill Creek Road into Frenchtown) |
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Brushy Fork, Idaho County
County
, 24 miles away, Class IV-V+ - 13 miles long (Off Elk Meadows Road to Crooked Creek) |
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White Sand Creek, Idaho County
County
, 25 miles away, Class IV-V - 4 miles long (Big Flat Creek to Colt Creek Campground) |
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Big Sand Creek, Idaho County
County
, 29 miles away, Class V - 4 miles long (Swamp Creek Trail to White Sand Creek) |
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| | Hotels Near Carlton Lake Trail:
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Lolo-Days Inn Missoula South/Blue Mountain, Lolo
, 8 miles away |
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Super 8 Motel - Missoula/Brooks Street, Missoula
, 12 miles away |
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Quality Inn & Conference Center, Missoula
, 12 miles away |
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Sleep Inn Missoula, Missoula
, 13 miles away |
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Southgate Inn, Missoula
, 13 miles away |
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