48.9083° N, 114.3818° W

360° · Terrain360 · Wurtz Boat Launch

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

Wurtz Boat Launch

A North Fork launch on the North Fork Road upstream of Ford, captured in July 2026. The Flathead Rivers Alliance has not published measured access details for this site yet, so treat the 360 imagery as the best available picture of what you will find.

Photographs

Terrain360 · July 2026

Another view of the access at Wurtz on the North Fork.

Field photography Terrain360, July 2026 · site photos courtesy Flathead Rivers Alliance

Getting there

On the North Fork Road roughly 2 miles north of the Ford river access, in the Wurtz Homestead stretch of the valley. No FRA access sheet has been published for this launch, so navigate by the coordinates below.

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Supporting evidence · 3 Terrain360 panoramas

Derived from the 360 imagery, not measured on site. Where it disagrees with the survey above, the survey is correct.

360° sequence evidence

Limited coverage

Coverage + route

Assigned coverage: 3 panoramas across 1 capture session
Scene roles: Launch area (3)

Visible conditions

Surfaces by scene: Gravel lot (3)
Safety classification: No visible hazard (3)

Setting + use

Crowding by scene: None visible (3)
Naturalness by scene: High (3)

Sequence evidence summarizes only the assigned panoramas and is not a complete site inventory. This site has no corresponding FRA assessment sheet in this export; do not treat scene classifications as field measurements or as evidence of site-wide absence.

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Wurtz, on the North Fork of the Flathead.

On the North Fork Road roughly 2 miles north of the Ford river access, in the Wurtz Homestead stretch of the valley. No FRA access sheet has been published for this launch, so navigate by the coordinates on the site page.

The Flathead Rivers Alliance has not published measured survey data for this site yet, so the details that follow come from the site description rather than from field measurements.

What the 360 imagery shows, from the 3 panoramas photographed here in July 2026. These are observations from the pictures, not field measurements.

Underfoot, the scenes mostly show a gravel parking lot.

The setting reads as natural throughout the sequence, with little or no visible use.

Conditions on the Three Forks change quickly. Check the gauge the morning you float.

Parking + facilities

Facilities not recorded

Safety

Conditions change rapidly on all three forks.

Neighbor sites

The river flows this way →

Upstream Headwaters

Downstream Confluence

North Fork · where this site sits

3,973 ft RM 58.2 872 ft of drop · 14.9 ft per mile average 3,102 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 river system flows through the traditional homelands of the Ql'ispe (Kalispel or Pend d' Orielle) Ktunaxa/Ksanka (Kootenai), and Séliš (Salish or "Flathead") Nations, who have long cared for this landscape, and the Amskapii Pikuni (Blackfeet) Peoples who often traveled in the river corridor.

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