Shook Mountain-Medicine Point
Montana
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8.4 mi
Distance
3,709 ft
Gain
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What we do know
Inside Bitterroot National Forest
2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.
Boundary data
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Shook Mountain-Medicine Point
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Elevation & route
- Distance
- 8.4 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,709 ft
- Elevation loss
- 1,823 ft
- Highest point
- 8,395 ft
- Lowest point
- 6,116 ft
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Directions & GPX
About this trail
Shook Mountain-Medicine Point is an 8.39-mile trail in Montana managed by the Forest Service within the Shook Mountain trail system. The route gains 3,730 feet of elevation.
Permits & access
- Managing agency
- Forest Service
Facts about this trail
The climb
- Starts at
- 6,118 ft
- High point
- 8,395 ft
- Total climbing
- 3,709 ft
- Total descent
- 1,823 ft
- Steepest stretch
- 43% grade around mile 4.6 from the start
- Length
- 8.4 mi
Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)
Where it is
- Sula Ranger District · Ranger district
- Bitterroot National Forest · National forest
- Managed by
- Forest Service
Conditions
Active alerts for Bitterroot National Forest as of Oct 9, 2026:
Two Prescribed Burns Planned for the week of Oct. 5 - Piquett Creek & Cameron Gap
fire-restriction · posted Oct 2, 2026
OPEN: FS Road 720 open as of Sept. 28; Lost Horse, Lick Creek, 711 Rd, and 75 Roads are open
information · posted Sep 28, 2026
Bitterroot National Forest Food Storage Order
information · posted Aug 24, 2026
Source: USFS forest alerts
Nearby
- MOON CREEKHiking1.2 mi
- LAIRD CREEKHiking1.7 mi
- Medicine Point LookoutHiking1.7 mi
- Upper East PiquettMountain biking1.9 mi
- Crazy Creek CampgroundCamping3 mi
- Warm Springs CreekCanoeing3.8 mi
- Warm Springs CampgroundCamping4 mi
- Spring Gulch CampgroundCamping5.1 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
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