FOREST RECREATION DEPARTMENT 



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Bald, Sawtooth, Beartooth, Castle Rock, Dewey Moun- 

 tain, Snow Peak and many other high points in the range 

 are near 12,000 feet above sea level. Plenty of opportun- 

 ity to do hard climbs is offered those who are "keen to 

 reach the tops of peaks that mean hard hiking. 



All of the principle streams of the Beartooth head 

 within a comparatively few miles of each other in this 

 rugged region of peculiar glaciers, snow fields and lakes. 

 It well may be believed that the scenic values found in 

 this neighborhood are great 

 and that one seeking the 

 wildest and roughest moun- 

 tain lands will find them 

 here. 



Lakes abound in alpine 

 locations. Goose, Burke, 

 Rock Island, Round, Lady- 

 of-the-Lake, Kersey, Wide- 

 water, Russell and Farley 

 Lakes are but a few of the 

 many that nestle in settings 

 of spruce and fir on the 

 sides of majestic moun- 

 tains. Fish taken from 

 these high lakes have the 

 snap and vim to put up a 

 good fight and the flesh is 

 especially delicious. Good 

 camp grounds are found at 

 most of these lakes and the 

 whole region is one of the 

 most striking vacation 

 grounds to be found in the 

 west. 



Only a few of the many 

 beautiful and interesting 

 features of the Beartooth 

 can be told here. More than 

 three-quarters of a million 

 acres are within the boun- 

 dary of this Forest and each 

 acre has some new inter- 

 esting thing to offer the 

 visitor. Most interesting of 

 all, this whole vast play- 

 ground is open to recrea- 

 tional use by all of the citizens of the United States. Per- 

 haps an urgent invitation to visit the Beartooth should 

 be extended only to good citizens, for good citizens do 

 not take chances with forest fires, and clean their camps 

 when they leave. 



Hut you are all welcome to come and play in the Bear- 

 tooth National Forest. It is one of the hundred and 

 fifty-three great play areas found within the National 

 Forests which you own equally with the next citizen. Its 

 streams, peaks, canyons and unusual glaciers belong to 

 the public. One of the most potent services which a forest 



can render to it's owners, Uncle Sam's nephews and nieces, 

 is the opportunity for play out of doors. So it is but 

 following the general policy of the entire Forest Service 

 when the Beartooth invites you to come out in the wilds 

 next summer and get personally acquainted with the 

 Grasshopper Glacier or the Mystic Falls or climb the 

 craggy head of Granite or Beartooth Mountains. 



Do you long for a country where towering mountains 

 look on glassy lakes, where trails lead past never ceasing 



beauty, where the meadows 

 are flecked with nodding 

 flower blooms and a dash- 

 ing cascade or murmuring 

 stream calls welcome? Do 

 you plan your vacation next 

 summer to visit hotels or do 

 you think of waking in the 

 morning to the chatter of a 

 pine squirrel or pinon jay, 

 where the shelter you have 

 lodged in during the night 

 is a tent carried during the 

 day on the back of horse or 

 your own shoulders, where 

 the only bed you may know 

 for days is a spruce or fir 

 bough mattress and your 

 dining room is the whole 



top of 



a mountain range? 



MYSTIC FALLS, A SUPERB SCENIC VALUE IN THE MOST SCENIC 

 OF THE BEARTOOTH REGIONS 



If you have the desire to 

 step off the beaten paths of 

 travel, to camp on the bank 

 of some clear stream or 

 mirror-like lake, to see 

 great uncommercialized rec- 

 reation country of rugged 

 National Forest play areas 

 you can make no mistake in 

 picking on the Beartooth 

 National Forest as your 

 next vacation land. For 

 there beauty is as wild as 

 the breezes that sing in the 

 spruce boughs and God's 

 handiwork, in all its un- 

 trammeled magnitude, en- 

 dows a vacation country of unsurpassed appeal. 



This is your introduction to the Beartooth National 

 Forest. Making its acquaintance requires your presence 

 there. That is up to you; so if your next vacation 

 is going to be off paths that are over-well trodden 

 ^and in the land of the Stillwater River or Rose- 

 bud Creeks or anywhere in the Beartooth, write the 

 District Forester, Missoula, Montana, or to the Forest 

 Supervisor, Beartooth National Forest, Billings, Mon- 

 tana, and ask where to go, how to get there, and what 

 to see, in more detail than is possible here 



