2014 Map of Sawtooth Mountain

About this map

The Cabinet Mountains dominate this landscape on the boundary of Lincoln and Sanders counties, a region of the northern Rockies managed by the Kootenai National Forest and Kanisku National Forest. The map captures a high-elevation environment defined by prominent peaks and sharp ridgelines, including Sawtooth Mtn and the distinctively named Bad Medicine Spires. Drainage patterns are clearly marked by the branching systems of Ross Cr and Dry Cr, which carve through steep terrain marked by features like Emma Gulch and Ross Point. This 2014 survey serves as a precise record of the landforms and forest boundaries, tracing the remote transition from Mt Vernon down into the valleys where Spar Cr and Club Cr flow through the deep timber of northwestern Montana.