RM 55.8 · 47.8552° N, 113.4297° W
Cedar Flats Satellite · Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics
360° capture coming
Not part of the current capture. Photos and survey data only.
Measured in the field by FRA

No access sheet has been published for this launch. The 360 imagery is the best picture of what you will find.

Cedar Flats River Access

This site provides river access to the Wild section of the South Fork Flathead via a steep foot trail from a marked vehicle pull off/parking area with hundreds of steps down to a pebbled beach.

Access concerns

Verbatim from the survey
  • Steep foot trail with hundreds of steps required to access water level

Getting there

From Hungry Horse, turn south off US Highway 2 onto the East Side Reservoir Road, Forest Road 38, half a mile east of town, and drive through Martin City. The pavement ends after two miles. Stay on the gravel 53 miles to the junction with the West Side Reservoir Road, Forest Road 895, turn right and go 1.5 miles to the Meadow Creek Road, Forest Road 2826, then turn left. The marked pull off is near milepost 11, and the river is a steep quarter-mile foot trail below it. Forest Road 38 closes between mileposts 37 and 53 from December 1 to May 14 for winter wildlife.

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Terrain360 Lens · coverage status

Access-site lens

Assessment pending

No assigned Terrain360 panorama sequence or reviewed FRA assessment sheet is available for this access site in the current release. This is a coverage gap, not a finding about site conditions.

Neighbor sites

The river flows this way →
South Fork · where this site sits
Elevation profile of the South Fork: 3,577 feet at river mile 39 near the confluence rising to 4,706 feet at river mile 97.6, a drop of 1,129 feet over 58.6 miles, averaging 19.3 feet per mile.
4,706 ft RM 97.6 1,129 ft of drop · 19.3 ft per mile average · hatched: no access site 3,577 ft confluence

Elevation sampled from USGS 10m along the Wild & Scenic centerline. Hover or focus a site to see the panorama closest to the water.

Homelands

The Three Forks flow through the homelands of the Séliš, Ql̓ispé, and Ktunaxa peoples, frequented by the Amskapi Piikani.

About the homelands FRA's own acknowledgment language appears here verbatim.