Castle Rock Mountain is in a wilderness created from existing National Forest lands in 1978 and is composed of how many acre?
Castle Rock Mountain Castle Rock Mountain (12406 ft ) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. The peak is one of the tallest in the Beatooth Mountains, the tenth-tallest in Montana and is in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, on the border of Custer and Gallatin national forests. The nearest taller mountain to Castle Rock Mountain is Castle Rock Spire, 0.65 mi east. Castle Rock Mountain is flanked by the Sundance Glacier to the north and the Castle Rock Glacier to the south.
Cache La Poudre Wilderness The Cache la Poudre Wilderness is federally-protected area administered by the U.S. Forest Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District on the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado. This wilderness covers 9258 acre and is characterized by steep, rugged terrain along the Cache la Poudre River. Elevations in this area varies from 6200 ft to 8600 ft . Only one trail, the Mount McConnel National Recreation Trail that is 3 mi long, exists in this wilderness, and 9 mi of the Little South Fork of the Cache La Poudre River flow through the wilderness.