2017 Map of Cattle Gulch

About this map

Beaverhead National Forest land dominates this high-altitude landscape, where deep drainages like Cattle Gulch and Limekiln Gulch carve into the mountainous terrain along the boundary of Silver Bow and Beaverhead counties. In the southeast corner, the settlement of Glendale sits at the base of the foothills near Trapper Cr, representing a pocket of development amidst more isolated features such as Picketts Pasture and Ore Camp Hill. The hydrography of the region is defined by the Big Hole River in the northeast and a series of springs including Upper Cattle Gulch Spring and Lower Cattle Gulch Spring. The naming conventions found here, such as Quartz Hill Gulch and Sawmill Gulch, hint at the historical extractive industries that once supported local populations in these remote gulches.