Snow Peak Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a great place for backcountry hunting and angling, but it’s gotten pretty difficult to travel the trails. Over the past decade, many of the trails have become inaccessible due to downed trees and overgrown brush. Several severe windstorms in recent years have increased the number of downed trees across the trails. Although some trail improvements were accomplished last summer, there is a lot of work left to do. Current conditions make it difficult for people to access Snow Peak for horseback riding, fishing, big game hunting, huckleberry picking, and general recreation.
IDFG is proposing to improve 50 miles of non-motorized trails by clearing logs, debris, and brush. Trails that will be improved include the Snow Peak Lookout trail that ends at a historic USFS lookout and a healthy population of mountain goats. The Spotted Louis trail leads from Snow Peak down to the North Fork of the Clearwater River and Trail 50. Trail 50 runs along the North Fork of the Clearwater River and provides access to great fly fishing. Scribner Falls trail provides the only relief to the steep canyons of Snow Peak and can be made into a loop using the ridge road.
With the help of a Recreational Trails Program Grant, we hope to hire a trail crew to open up 50 miles of trail. Snow Peak WMA is part of a rare large roadless non-motorized area in the Panhandle and we’d like to make it more accessible to hunters and anglers.
