Upper East Piquett
Montana
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1.9 mi
Distance
422 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
What's missing
No access route mapped
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Upper East Piquett
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Elevation & route
- Distance
- 1.9 mi
- Elevation gain
- 422 ft
- Elevation loss
- 631 ft
- Highest point
- 6,483 ft
- Lowest point
- 6,053 ft
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Directions & GPX
About this trail
Upper East Piquett is a 1.87-mile trail in the Shook Mountain trail system in Montana. The route gains 1,102 feet of elevation.
Permits & access
- Managing agency
- Forest Service
Facts about this trail
The climb
- High point
- 6,483 ft
- Total climbing
- 422 ft
- Total descent
- 631 ft
- Steepest stretch
- 14% grade right from the start
- Length
- 1.9 mi
Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)
Where it is
- West Fork 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
- Eastside PiquettHiking0.9 mi
- Upper East Side PiquettHiking1.2 mi
- PIQUETTE CREEKHiking1.6 mi
- Piquett CreekHiking1.7 mi
- Medicine Point LookoutCamping3.3 mi
- Crazy Creek CampgroundCamping4.8 mi
- Warm Springs CreekCanoeing5.6 mi
- Warm Springs CampgroundCamping5.8 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
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