Hikes between Bozeman and YNP

[gtapp]

I have been traveling to Big Sky every year since 1998 and like to hike every day with my dogs. I usually stay with the hikes I know since I know there will be water for the dogs. Lava Lake is a favorite. I need some new places to go. Can anyone suggest hikes between 4 corners and YNP? Possibly Highlight canyon depending on distance from Big Sky (where I stay).

[allcat]

It's not very long, but I like it Ousel Falls Trail, near Big Sky.

[gtapp]

It's not very long, but I like it Ousel Falls Trail, near Big Sky.

I like that one also but I think since they fixed that trail up your dogs have to be leashed. Does anyone know for certain?

[BigBruceBaker]

I have been traveling to Big Sky every year since 1998 and like to hike every day with my dogs. I usually stay with the hikes I know since I know there will be water for the dogs. Lava Lake is a favorite. I need some new places to go. Can anyone suggest hikes between 4 corners and YNP? Possibly Highlight canyon depending on distance from Big Sky (where I stay).

Gary, have you ever been up the back of big sky?

I don't know how long it is but I've snowmobiled up the back of big sky and it was amazing. I would think during the summer it would be a great hike.

[gtapp]

I have been traveling to Big Sky every year since 1998 and like to hike every day with my dogs. I usually stay with the hikes I know since I know there will be water for the dogs. Lava Lake is a favorite. I need some new places to go. Can anyone suggest hikes between 4 corners and YNP? Possibly Highlight canyon depending on distance from Big Sky (where I stay).

Gary, have you ever been up the back of big sky?

I don't know how long it is but I've snowmobiled up the back of big sky and it was amazing. I would think during the summer it would be a great hike.

No, When you say the back of Big Sky, where do you mean and how would I get there??

[BigBruceBaker]

Let me look on google maps, going into a meeting but I'll look later today.

It's something like 5 miles past big sky on the hwy to Yellowstone on the right hand side. It's after that last diner/bar on the right


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[tdub]

Let me look on google maps, going into a meeting but I'll look later today.

It's something like 5 miles past big sky on the hwy to Yellowstone on the right hand side. It's after that last diner/bar on the right


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I think you are thinking of the Corral Bar. That is where the parking lot/snowmobile trailhead is.

[BigBruceBaker]

Tdub good call. That's where I was thinking. Can you hike that?


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[tdub]

Tdub good call. That's where I was thinking. Can you hike that?


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I'm not sure. I've only driven by it and noted for future riding for me. I was down there this past weekend for a conference at Big Sky and my wife pointed out that spot as where she and her family went riding when she was a kid. I hope to explore it one of these winters....

[gtapp]

Thanks for the help guys!!! If you can think of any more information on the road by the Corral I would appreciate that!!!

[grizzh8r]

If you go to the north entrance through Livingston and Gardiner, Pine Creek Falls is a good moderate 5 mile RT hike. The longer Pine Creek Lake hike on the same trail (8 miles past the falls to the lake) is a serious 20 mile RT 3200 vertical foot workout. Plan it to be a whole day hike. Totally worth it, even though some of the forest around the trail burned in 2012.

[St George]

If you go to the north entrance through Livingston and Gardiner, Pine Creek Falls is a good moderate 5 mile RT hike. The longer Pine Creek Lake hike on the same trail (8 miles past the falls to the lake) is a serious 20 mile RT 3200 vertical foot workout. Plan it to be a whole day hike. Totally worth it, even though some of the forest around the trail burned in 2012.

This would be my recommendation as well.

[allcat]

What time do you have to get up to go on a hike?

[gocats]

I think that's called Carrot Basin by the Corral bar.

[lutecat]

Beehive Basin. I really like that hike. A customer of mine says that if you go off trail when you get up to the lake, there is a structure with an old tarp tucked into some trees. We wondered if it was a place the Mountain Men that kidnapped the girl had some stuff cached.

[RickRund]

Beehive Basin. I really like that hike. A customer of mine says that if you go off trail when you get up to the lake, there is a structure with an old tarp tucked into some trees. We wondered if it was a place the Mountain Men that kidnapped the girl had some stuff cached.

I had forgotten all about that. What year was it?

[lutecat]

I want to say 79??? I know I wasn't very old. If a year old. I heard about it a few years ago when it made the news the judge in the trial passed away. I looked it up and had no idea that all went sown.

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[RickRund]

I want to say 79??? I know I wasn't very old. If a year old. I heard about it a few years ago when it made the news the judge in the trial passed away. I looked it up and had no idea that all went sown.

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You are just a youngster... I would have still been in Montana then. If I could figure out how to look it up I would check... It was a long time ago...

That Pine Creek trail was one I would run. All I remember is that it was a ********. Another good hike would be off the Harvats Flats above Livingston. There was a trail west off Harvats. Way too many years,ago but was a Great run. Heck, I have been gone since June of 82...I really miss that country.

[Joe Bobcat]

I want to say 79??? I know I wasn't very old. If a year old. I heard about it a few years ago when it made the news the judge in the trial passed away. I looked it up and had no idea that all went sown.

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You are just a youngster... I would have still been in Montana then. If I could figure out how to look it up I would check... It was a long time ago...

That Pine Creek trail was one I would run. All I remember is that it was a ********. Another good hike would be off the Harvats Flats above Livingston. There was a trail west off Harvats. Way too many years,ago but was a Great run. Heck, I have been gone since June of 82...I really miss that country.

I believe you guys are trying to remember the kidnapping of Kari Swenson by Don and Dan Nichols. That happened during the Summer of 1984. Etched deep in my mind. What a cluster those two dorks created.