North fork road

Total Miles
15.1

Technical Rating

3

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

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North fork road
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Trail Overview

This road takes you from Columbia Falls to the Canadian Border. This is a fun drive with lots of great stops, and two entrances to Glacier National Park. The most popular stop is Polebridge, MT, where you can try a huckleberry bear claw from the world famous Polebridge Mercantile. You can also enter Glacier National Park here and access both Kintla Lake and Bowman Lake. The road itself is usually well maintained, but, due to the amount of traffic it receives during the summer, it can become a bit rough with potholes and washboard. From Trail Creek Rd. to the border, the road narrows and become muddy, rutted, and potholed. Even so, most passenger cars should be able to make it to the border.

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North fork road
North fork road

Difficulty

Besides navigating pothole ruts, this trail is mostly just compacted dirt. There are no major ledges or obstacles to be concerned with.

Technical Rating

3

Status Reports

Steve Stansf
May 18, 2025
Open
Normal
Muddy/Wet
Gavin Ryan-massa
May 10, 2025
Open
Normal
Dusty
The road was smooth coming into the trailhead, once on it it does have ruts. Not to deep, enough room to go around if needed. Met some cool people along the trail very nice and helpful. There are some blind turn there Subarus like to think they are pre runners coming little to hot into corners. Be mindful there are other people on this trail! Made it to the red bridge and noticed an offshoot that leads into a water crossing, wouldn’t recommend doing it along unless you’re confident and walked it beforehand. There is a cool campsite on the other side.
Tyler Wilcox
Apr 22, 2025
2006 Lexus LX
Open
Normal
Dusty
Didn’t take to many pictures spent most my day out on t57 trails pretty dry they started up doing logging again. Also got my first nail in a tire. So watch out.
Sebastian Smith
Apr 18, 2025
4x4
Open
Normal
Dusty

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