Big Therriault Lake Loop
Montana
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0.6 mi
Distance
139 ft
Gain
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What we do know
Inside Kootenai National Forest
2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.
Boundary data
What's missing
No access route mapped
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Big Therriault Lake Loop
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Elevation & route
- Distance
- 0.6 mi
- Elevation gain
- 139 ft
- Elevation loss
- 206 ft
- Highest point
- 5,713 ft
- Lowest point
- 5,558 ft
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About this trail
Big Therriault Lake Loop is a 0.60-mile trail at Clarence Creek Trailhead in Montana with 210 feet of elevation gain. The trail forms a loop within the Clarence Creek Trailhead system.
Permits & access
- Managing agency
- Forest Service
Facts about this trail
The climb
- Starts at
- 5,586 ft
- High point
- 5,713 ft
- Total climbing
- 139 ft
- Total descent
- 206 ft
- Steepest stretch
- 21% grade around mile 0.2 from the start
- Length
- 0.6 mi
Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)
Where it is
- Fortine Ranger District · Ranger district
- Kootenai National Forest · National forest
- Managed by
- Forest Service
Conditions
Active alerts for Fortine Ranger District as of Oct 10, 2026:
Deep Creek Road #368 Closure due to Culvert Replacement
caution · posted Sep 24, 2026
Updated Skillet Fire Area, Road, Trail Closure
fire-restriction · posted Sep 11, 2026
Source: USFS forest alerts
Nearby
- Big Therriault/highlineHiking0.1 mi
- Big Therriault Lake CampgroundCamping0.6 mi
- Grave Creek Snowmobile Big TMountain biking0.6 mi
- GRAVE CREEK SNOWMOBL LITTLE THiking0.9 mi
- Little TherriaultHiking0.9 mi
- Little Therriault LakeCamping1.2 mi
- Grave Creek CampgroundCamping7.6 mi
- Tobacco RiverCanoeing8.6 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
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