Mount Calowahcan

Mount Calowahcan, in northwestern Montana, is the sixth-highest peak in the Mission Mountains and rises between the Swan Valley and Mission Valley. It lies within a closely protected landscape managed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation and also within the Flathead National Forest's Mission Mountains Wilderness, established in 1975 under the Wilderness Act of 1964. Recreation here is tightly regulated, with access largely limited to non-motorized travel and non-tribal visitors required to carry a tribal lands-use permit. A major grizzly bear protection zone south of the mountain is often closed to hikers in summer to reduce contact with feeding bears.

Montana · United States