Lolo Trail Composite Topo Maps
Lolo Trail National Historic Landmark: Composite Topographic Maps Techinical Report
Contributed by Steve F. Russell
These maps are the culmination of thirty-one years of research on the Lolo Trail National Historic Landmark. The author conducted many summers of primitive camping and hiking to access all the trails in this report, and he used precision GPS instruments to record the exact locations of these trail treads. He has hiked all the trails indicated on these maps, some of them many times. The trail traces from government data are not precision results because their maps were made without the aid of precision topographic maps and GPS.
This document may contain sensitive historical preservation information, and the author implores the reader to carefully preserve its historical nature and artifacts. This document is meant to be used by all of the state and federal agencies that have a connection to the Lolo Trail National Historic Landmark.
Steve F. Russell, PhD, PE
Ames, Iowa
2017
Russell gives us two versions of this report. The 2017 version updates the previous with the addition of extensive annotation and map keys. The original 2017 version is very large (121.3 MB) and has been divided into five parts. These are still very large and may not work on all devices.—ed.
- 2002 Report (PDF, 14.4 mb)
- 2017 Report Part 1: Intro and Key (PDF, 1.5 mb)
- 2017 Report Part 2: Kamiah to Weippe Prairie and Weippe Prairie to Willow Ridge via Hungery Creek (PDF, 38.2 mb)
- 2017 Report Part 3: Green Saddle to Bald Mountain and Bald Mountain to Rocky Point (PDF, 44.8 mb)
- 2017 Report Part 4: Crooked Fork to Lolo Hot Springs and Lolo Hot Springs to Lolo, Montana (PDF, 26.9 mb)
- 2017 Report Part 5: Weippe Prairie to Green Saddle via Snowy Summit and Fishery Trail, Brushy Fork to Wendover Ridge (PDF, 29.8 mb)