We snagged a walk-in site in a National Forest campground on Bass Creek and liked it so well we opted to stay for 5 days. The Bitterroot Bike Trail runs 50 miles from Missoula to Hamilton next to Hwy. 93. So on one side you have magnificent views of the mountains, ranches and farmland and on the other side is highway traffic with its noisy cars and trucks. We rode about 20 miles on the trail and decided that was enough noise.
Running alongside Bass Creek is a trail out of the campground up the mountain which at this point is not very steep but beautiful with surrounding trees and rock walls and the only noise is the rushing waters and warbling birds. We hiked up about 2 miles and John discovered a couple of places where he thought he could fly fish so Friday afternoon he hiked back up and actually caught one fish! But the water was really cold and the hike a little too far for one fish.
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