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1963 Map of Bacon Peak

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Bacon Peak
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

Saint Joe River flows through the northern reaches of this high-elevation landscape, marking a transition between the St Joe National Forest and the Clearwater National Forest along the border of Shoshone and Clearwater counties. The topography is defined by prominent elevations such as Bacon Peak and Five Lakes Butte, the latter of which overlooks a cluster of alpine water bodies including Silver Lake and Heather Lake.

Evidence of the mid-century timber and land management era is visible in the network of unimproved trails and forest boundaries. The drainage patterns are intricate, with Skull Creek and Bean Creek carving deep valleys through the southern portion near Jackson Ridge. This map provides a detailed look at the wilderness before late-20th-century shifts in forest service infrastructure, capturing the specific locations of Forage Lake and Halo Lake as they were surveyed in the early 1960s.