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2020 Map of Mountain House

Name: 2020 Topographic Map of Mountain House
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2020
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2020

About this map

Bitterroot National Forest covers much of this Ravalli County terrain, where the mountain landscape is defined by a dense network of gulches and draws. The eponymous Mtn House and Mountain House Spring sit near Charleys Gulch in the northeast, marking a high point above the drainage basins. Waterways such as Skalkaho Cr, Sleeping Child Cr, and Gird Cr carve through the slopes, creating a rugged geography that historically dictated access to the region's timber and mineral resources.

Evidence of past land use appears in labels like Sawdust Gulch, Last Log Draw, and Quarry Gulch, pointing to the early 21st-century's intersection of natural resource extraction and forest management. Near the forest boundary, a grid of local roads and trails like Hampton Trl and E Tammany Trl transitions from more developed valleys into the wilderness, offering a look at the modern rural-to-wildland interface.