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  Lolo Pass Visitor Center and Rest Area, Nez Perce National Historical Park Case Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Lolo Pass Visitor Center and Rest Area is located along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail and is one of the designated sites of Nez Perce National Historical Park.
The concept for the Lolo Pass Visitor Center and Rest Area was conceived by the Federal Highway Administration, Montana Department of Transportation, Idaho Transportation Department, and USFS.
Although Lolo Pass is a site of Nez Perce National Historical Park, the park has neither the staff nor the funding to assist the USFS in it's operation.
www.nps.gov /partnerships/lolo_pass_nez_perce.htm   (1309 words)

  
 Lolo
Lolo is an important junction in Western history and is the gateway to the Bitterroot Valley.
The pass was used by the Nez Perce Indians as a buffalo trail and by the Lewis and Clark Expedition en route to the Pacific.
Lolo Hot Springs Resort & RV Park: Lolo Hot Springs Resort is on 125 acres of private property in the middle of the Lolo National Forest, 37 miles Southwest of Missoula Montana on Highway #12 West.
www.campingmontana.com /Lolo.asp   (450 words)

  
 Lolo Pass Visitor Center and Rest Area
On September 13th, 1805, the Lewis and Clark expedition, following the Lolo Trail, spilled out of the thick woods and came upon a series of lush meadows near what is now Lolo Pass.
They were anxious to proceed down Lolo Creek to Lolo Hot Springs and enjoy the hot baths they had no time for in 1805.
Lolo Pass is located on the border of Montana and Idaho along U.S. Highway 12.
www.fs.fed.us /r1/lewisclark/lcic/grasslands/lolo_visitor.html   (310 words)

  
 Your Adventures - On the Trail - Lewis and Clark - Sierra Club
It was there, hiking the Hoodoo to Lookout Pass section, that I saw Josh look south and name every mountain pass and river drainage he had hiked since he started in the Sawtooths on snowshoes from beyond the horizon.
The one marked exception was a group of 14 people on motorized all-terrain-vehicles, who considered the Lolo Pass to be their playground.
Kayaking the Clearwater to the Snake, Snake to Columbia and Columbia to Wallula Gap
www.sierraclub.org /lewisandclark/your_adventures/dixon/lolo.asp   (1032 words)

  
 Hiking the Lolo Trail - Lewis and Clark Adventure Tour
The Lolo Trail is a high mountainous ridgeline trail that allows you to see where the expedition came from and brings to light the decisions they faced.
The Lolo Trail was the northern route across the rugged Bitterroot Mountains used for centuries before Lewis and Clark by Native Americans of the West.
From Lolo Pass to the Wieppe Prairie the trail follows a general direction of east--west from meadow to meadow, watering hole to watering hole for human and livestock survival.
www.trailadventures.com /lolohike.html   (1191 words)

  
 Lolo Pass Loop of 9/27-28/03
The Lolo Pass Loop is a great motorcycle ride out of Boise, and it took us two days with an overnite stop in Missoula at Exit 96 to cover the 800 miles.
Somewhere between the road sign and Lolo Pass we pulled over by this wooden trestle bridge over the Lochsa River.
Lolo Summit is right by the Idaho/Montana state line at 6,235'.
myweb.cableone.net /grumbler/lolo   (913 words)

  
 North Central Idaho: Lolo Pass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Lolo Trail is about 100 miles long, roughly from Weippe to beyond Lolo Pass (which is on the Idaho-Montana border).
From Lolo, Montana, to a few miles west of Lolo Pass, the trail closely follows U.S. Highway 12.
The corridor of this trail and pass contain significant ethnographic, archeological, and historic resources associated with Nez Perce use during buffalo hunts as well as during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
www.northcentralidaho.info /cgi/TPL03.php?ID=186_999_105   (308 words)

  
 Snowmobiling on Lolo Pass
Lolo Pass is on US Hwy 12 at the Montana-Idaho border 45 miles southwest of Missoula.
At Lolo Hot Springs visitors enjoy the same soothing waters that bathed the weary members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition nearly 200 years ago.
Starting at either Lolo Hot Springs or at Lolo Pass 7 miles west, snowmobilers can conduct their own modern-day explorations, using 250 miles of groomed, connecting trails in the Lolo and Clearwater national forests.
wintermt.com /snomoareas/lolo.htm   (333 words)

  
 WFO-3: Lolo Pass loop
Awhile after passing through Cavendish (look quick or you'll miss it) you'll come to the top of the Ahsahka Grade, with its spectacular view up the Clearwater canyon leading to Lolo Pass.
Also, there is a Lolo Pass Resort off on the south side of the road, just west of the summit.
After a long descent from Gold Pass down the southern slopes of the Bitterroot mountains, you'll come to a T-intersection on the north bank of the beautiful St. Joe river.
www.fjr1300.info /events/rides/lolo.html   (1113 words)

  
 NATHPO - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
LOLO PASS – No longer merely a backdrop for speech-making by white men, Indians from the Nez Perce, Flathead and Colville reservations Friday came to the mountain pass where their ancestors once gathered to remember a shared and grievous past, celebrate a present-day success and look hopefully to the future.
The new Lolo Pass visitor’ center and rest area is evidence of “a true partnership between Native Americans and non-Indians,” said Tony Incashola, a cultural leader of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
The Salish people came to Lolo Pass from the east, bringing animal meat and skins collected in the Bitterroot Valley and on their hunting trips to the Great Plains.
www.nathpo.org /nathpo/News/Lewis_Clark/News_Lewis28.htm   (982 words)

  
 Lewis & Clark - Lolo Trail and Lolo Pass Visitor Center
History: This Indian trail across the Bitterroot Mountains was used by western indians to reach the eastern plains buffalo hunting grounds for centuries before Lewis and Clark arrived.
Chief Joseph and the other leaders of the non-treaty Nez Perces led their people across the same Lolo Pass in an attempt to reach Canada.
Across the steepest parts of Lolo Pass, through battle in the Big Hole Valley, through Yellowstone Park, and north to the Bears Paw Mountains, they would outfight and outmaneuver the American army.
lewisandclark.state.mt.us /sites.asp?IDNumber=20   (501 words)

  
 Lolo Trail System
On the Clearwater and Lolo National Forests, in the mountains of northern Idaho and western Montana, there is an ancient trail system that has been used for hundreds of years as a land bridge between the Columbia River basin and the Missouri River basin.
The approximate route of this trail is westward up Lolo Creek from Lolo, Montana to Lolo Pass and then along the dividing ridge between the North and Middle Forks of the Clearwater River until reaching the Weippe Prairie near Weippe, Idaho.
Today, the Lolo Trail System is in a remarkable state of preservation and has the potential of providing a unique experience and connection between the past and present.
www.public.iastate.edu /~sfr/trails/lolotral.html   (845 words)

  
 Watershed Group Details
Watershed Description: The Lolo Creek watershed is 175,270 acres in size, and sits at the northern end of the Bitterroot Mountains just southeast of Missoula, Montana.
Lolo Creek originates near Lolo Pass and flows about 37 miles east to a confluence with the Bitterroot River.
Landowners in the watershed were concerned about a variety of issues stemming from past and present land uses, and wanted to see a results-driven collaborative effort to restore and conserve the watershed.
water.montana.edu /watersheds/groups/details.asp?groupID=73   (581 words)

  
 Missoulian - Lolo Pass visitor center dedication on Friday
Dignitaries aplenty will descend upon Lolo Pass on Friday - as they have for hundreds of years now - to celebrate the past, the present and the future of the longest-used, never-easily-negotiated path over the Bitterroot Mountains.
Officially, they'll be on hand to dedicate the new Lolo Pass visitor center and rest area and to unveil a memorial to the late Stephen Ambrose, the historian and author known best for his popular account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Ambrose was a frequent visitor to Lolo Pass, having come there on vacations with his family, while leading trips along the Lewis and Clark Trail for his students, and in recent years to speak out for the area's preservation as an historic place.
www.missoulian.com /articles/2003/06/24/news/local/news01.txt   (824 words)

  
 Lolo Hot Springs Home
Lolo Hot Springs was well known to the Indians long before the arrival of Lewis and Clark, among the earliest visitors to the Lolo Pass area of western Montana, in the fall of 1805.
At Lolo Hot Springs, visitors today can enjoy the same soothing waters that bathed the weary members of that famed expedition 186 years ago.
Lolo Hot Springs is at an elevation of 4,160 feet, but the trails climb to 8,000 feet.
www.lolohotsprings.com   (279 words)

  
 LOLO TRAIL NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Segments of the Lolo Trail road have been and presently are being graveled for timber harvest haul roads.
Parts of the Lolo Trail Road, on the eastern and western ends of the Clearwater National Forest have been cut off (entrance signs to the historic Lolo Trail corridor are several miles inside the Landmark).
The Lolo Trail should be managed in such a way as to not create any long term adverse impacts to the trail, its environment and the related sites and/or features.
www.wildrockies.org /foc/LoloTrailinfull.html   (12440 words)

  
 Biking the Lolo Trail, Lewis and Clark Trail in Idaho - Lewis and Clark Trail Adventures
With their Shoshone guide Old Toby, the expedition was looking for the ancient trail used by the Nez Perce traveling east to the Buffalo and the Salish traveling west to the Salmon of the Lochsa River.
Instead of staying high on the ridgelines at Lolo Pass, they mistakenly followed a fishing trail to the Kooskooskee (Lochsa River) which means rough water in Nez Perce.
Our Lolo Trail hiking trips also depart on Fridays, hiking or biking trip dates are determined by the first to reserve a date.
www.trailadventures.com /lolobike.html   (1047 words)

  
 Lolo Pass (Oregon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lolo Pass is a mountain pass west of Mount Hood, located about ten miles northwest of Zigzag, Oregon, along the Clackamas/Hood River county line.
It is one of the milestones along the Pacific Crest Trail.
The pass is near the Bull Run Watershed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lolo_Pass_(Oregon)   (104 words)

  
 Montana Birding and Nature Trail
Lolo Pass was known to the Nez Perce as the Trail to the Buffalo, and to the Bitterroot Salish as the Trail to the Nez Perce.
Lolo Pass offers groomed trails for cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, separating the uses.
The visitor center is on left at top of Lolo Pass.
www.montanabirdingtrail.org /maps/r1/t2/s1/r1t2s1.htm   (388 words)

  
 The Lewis & Clark Expedition --Reading 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It was along this trail that momentous steps were made in the realm of American exploration, two of which were the discovery of the western-most extension of the Missouri River and waters flowing into the Columbia River, which flows to the Pacific Ocean.
Furthermore, by crossing through Lemhi Pass, Lewis and his men became the first Americans to reach and negotiate the Continental Divide, which follows the crest of the Rocky Mountains in North America.
The crossing of the Lolo Trail was a turning point in the expedition to the Pacific.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/108lewisclark/108facts2.htm   (1301 words)

  
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LOLO is not blessed with strength or agility but possesses great courage, high IQ and a lot of patience.
Rivers Lolo is able to keep Eggs afloat and ride them on the water.
Gol Gol awakes when all Heart Framers are taken, and discharges a flame when Lolo passes in front of him.
www.atarihq.com /tsr/manuals/advlolo1.txt   (1004 words)

  
 Lolo Hot Springs Summer Activities
For this summer's fun set up your vacation headquarters in the Lolo Hot Springs Campground with your RV, a tent, or one of our tipi's, camped out on the famed Lewis and Clark Trail.
Lolo Hot Springs Resort on Highway 12 near Lolo Pass, on the Montana - Idaho border in the scenic Bitterroot Mountains.
Known for excellence in recreation all 12 months, year 'round residents enjoy the Lolo Hot Springs Resort and all that is available in the Lolo Pass area.
www.lolohotsprings.com /summer.htm   (339 words)

  
 lolo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Upon reaching the summit, four miles south of Lolo Pass, they expected to be able to look west and see a land of flat praries and a river passage straight to the Pacific.
When I reached the summit of Lolo Pass, I stood and looked west, then imagined myself as a member of the Corps of Discovery and seeing nothing but mountains between me and the Pacific Ocean.
Thirty miles east of Lolo Pass is the town of Lolo, Montana.
www.davidmoretz.com /journals/lolo.html   (592 words)

  
 Lolo Pass | Montana Snowshoe Trails
Preview: Lolo Pass is in the Bitterroot Mountains, a mountain range 470 miles long.
Lolo Pass carries great historic significance for the Nez Perce Indians, who frequented this route through the mountains from Idaho to their hunting grounds on Montana’s plains.
Today the pass is a popular ski and snowshoe route astride the Montana—Idaho border.
www.trails.com /tcatalog_trail.asp?trailid=SGR028-016s   (154 words)

  
 Steve's 1998 Odyssey - Installment 3
The geezer was about 5 car-lengths behind the truck when he went out to pass and was pretty slow about completing the pass.
I pulled over to see if he’d pass us or shoot me. I wasn’t sure if Rick knew what was happening, but his spinning-ear hand motion made it clear that he'd noticed this guy too.
The Lolo Pass sign on one of the buildings made it seem like a good place to take a couple of photos.
www.concours.org /steve/98trip/p3.html   (1371 words)

  
 Lewis & Clark - Lolo Trail and Lolo Pass Visitor Center
Directions: For Lolo Pass and Lolo Pass Visitor Center, take US 12 west from Lolo.
The Lolo Pass Visitor Center on the Montana-Idaho border features signs and information on area history.
The Lolo Motorway, Forest Service Road 500, is an unpaved road that follows the original trail.
lewisandclark.state.mt.us /today.asp?IDNumber=20   (194 words)

  
 lolo
As part of the huge Northern Pacific Railroad land grant, the railroad obtained title to alternating sections of the public domain in upper Lolo Creek in Montana, and at the headwaters of the Lochsa River in Idaho.
On the Montana side of the border, logging levels in upper Lolo Creek led former Supervisor Orville Daniels to withdraw public lands there from further timber harvesting.
Plum Creek has not been unwilling to give up some of its lands near Lolo Pass, but the firm has been unwilling to donate tracts, and has insisted on receiving full appraisal value.
www.landgrant.org /lolo.html   (766 words)

  
 Missoulian - Wildlife-resistant Dumpsters in place at Lolo Pass area
The explorers saw no bears while crossing the pass - which was probably fortunate for the bears, since the expedition members were so hungry.
Modern visitors to the Lolo Pass area find a different situation, according to biologist Sterling Miller at the National Wildlife Federation, which joined Defenders of Wildlife in providing the new trash cans.
"Highway 12 over Lolo Pass and down the Lochsa Wild and Scenic River corridor bisects excellent wilderness habitat for both the grizzly bear (which is no longer present in the area) and the still-abundant fl bear," Miller said.
www.missoulian.com /articles/2003/05/27/news/mtregional/news07.txt   (545 words)

  
 Phil Konstantin's 2003 Vacation: Nez Perce, Lewis and Clark areas: Kamiah to Lolo Pass, Idaho
The Lochsa River, which follows Highway 12 for much of its route from the Nez Perce reservation to the Lolo Pass, is used by many kayakers and rafters.
It was a bit snowy at the Lolo Pass at 5,233 feet elevation (where Highway 12 passes from Idaho to Montana).
The first of four pictures to show a large sign just east of the Lolo Pass, in Montana.
americanindian.net /2003b.html   (1144 words)

  
 TIME Magazine: Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, The Lolo Trail
Lewis and Clark were nearly defeated 200 years ago by snowstorms on the Lolo — the name apparently comes from Lawrence, a French-Canadian trapper killed by a grizzly in the area in the 1850s.
At the Lolo Pass (elev.: 5,233 ft.), the Forest Service is building a log cabin and a warming hut that will serve as a Lewis and Clark interpretive center when finished later this year.
The narrow trail leads through cedars and Douglas firs, and we pass clumps of bear grass, huckleberry bushes, dogtooth violets and carpets of wild strawberry plants in the clearings.
www.time.com /time/2002/lewis_clark/ldiary.html   (1636 words)

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