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1999 Map of Driveway Peak

Name: 1999 Topographic Map of Driveway Peak
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2003
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2003

About this map

Mountain House Historical Site anchors this late-twentieth-century study of the Sanders County backcountry within the Lolo National Forest. The landscape is defined by the heavy legacy of mineral extraction along Prospect Creek, where the presence of a Tailings Pond and numerous mine workings point to a busy industrial history. The drainage network is particularly dense, with colorful local names like Buster Brown Gulch, Looters Gulch, and Lucky Boy Gulch indicating the era of prospectors who combed these mountains.

Industrial sites such as the Montana Mine and Iron Daisy Mine are mapped in detail, showing their relationship to the high ridges of Driveway Peak. The infrastructure of the late 1990s is visible through the prominent Pipeline corridor cutting across the southern sections of the quadrangle. This map serves as an essential record for those tracing the mining claims and early settlements that once thrived along the forks of Clear Creek and Daisy Creek.