Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Hiking Trails

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We began the Page Lake and Flower Lake hike from the...…


We began the Cutaway Pass hike from the Upper Carpp Creek...…


We began the Warren Lake and Cutaway Pass hike from...…


The trail we took to Warren Lake in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness...…


The Fourmile Basin Lakes in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness...…


The Warren Pass Loop in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness...…


Goat Flats in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness is a popular...…


The trail to Storm Lake takes you to a local favorite...…


Carpp Lake in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness is an easy...…


Edith Lake in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness is a fairly easy hike...…


Tenmile Lakes in the Anaconda-Pintler Mountains is a great...…


Hearst Lake is a close hike to Anaconda. The trailhead is...…


Barker Lake is a fairly easy out and back hike in the Anaconda...…


Lake of the Isle ascends up an old logging road. The trail appears to have...…


Twin Lakes ascends up an old road. It appears to have been...…


Howe Mountain starts out hiking next to a swampy section of...…

Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Products

Fun Facts about Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness

The Anaconda Pintler Wilderness is named for the Anaconda Mountain Range and Charles Ellsworth Pintler, an early settler to the Big Hole Valley who first came to the area in 1885.1 

You might see some people spell Pintler as Pintlar. From our research, the name was incorrectly spelled Pintlar until it was corrected by the Board of Geographic Names in 1978.

Native wildlife includes many of the large mammals indigenous to the Rockies at the time of Euro-American settlement, among them mule deer, elk, moose, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, wolverine, gray wolf, puma, black bear, and the occasional grizzly bear.1 

The Anaconda Pintler Wilderness was designated as a wilderness area in 1964, the year the Wilderness Act was signed.

The Meyers Fire burned much of the north-central Anaconda Pintler Wilderness area in 2017. It was started by lightning on July 17, 2017, and burned 62,034 acres.

We were always curious… so here is what we found:

The orange color indicates the presence of limonite (an iron ore) staining and probable sulfide mineralization. There is no historic mining or evidence of mining making it a naturally occurring acidic drainage.1