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1961 Map of Blackhall Mountain

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Blackhall Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1972
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1972

About this map

Blackhall Mountain serves as the high-elevation center of this high-altitude landscape where the State Line divides the Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming from the Routt National Forest in Colorado. Surveyed in the early 1960s, the map reveals a wilderness shaped by drainage patterns and remote access, with water flowing from the slopes into the East Encampment River and North Fork Big Creek.

A single mine and a legacy Telephone Line are the few markers of industrial activity in this otherwise primitive terrain. Transportation is limited to a network of a Pack Trail and a Jeep Trail, illustrating how the region was navigated before more modern infrastructure. Named features like Wood Mountain and Collins Draw define the topography, while the boundary between Carbon and Jackson counties follows the rugged divide.