Hike · Lost Fork Judith River trailhead

Lost Fork Judith River

Distance

11.6 mi

Vertical

2,392 ft

Summit

7,329 ft

Difficulty

Very strenuous

The Little Belt Mountains are a long, gently rolling section of the Rocky Mountains in central Montana, most of it set aside as the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Big Baldy Mountain, at 9,467 feet, is the high point of the range. Two large roadless areas anchor the recreation…

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Autumn color along a trout stream in the Little Belt Mountains, a representative scene of the conifer drainages that hold the Lost and Middle Forks of the Judith. — U.S. Forest Service, Northern Region · Public domain

Layered limestone cliffs rise above a Little Belt Mountains stream — the same multicolored limestone that walls the Middle Fork-Judith canyon. — David J Laporte · CC BY 2.0

A cobble-bed stream runs out of conifer cover in the Little Belt Mountains, characteristic of the trout drainages of the range. — U.S. Forest Service, Northern Region · Public domain

Summer current and willow banks line a Little Belt Mountains creek in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. — U.S. Forest Service, Northern Region · Public domain

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