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15.
Seeley Lake Area
Flowing south to the Blackfoot, the Clearwater River forms a chain of picture-perfect
lakes—Alva, Inez, Seeley, and Salmon—with wide-open views of the Mission and Swan
mountains. A unique way to explore the area is by taking the Clearwater Canoe Trail, a
three-miledownstreamfloatwithaone-milehikebacktotheput-inpoint.Splendidbyday,
the ride is doubly so at dusk, when loons suffuse the air with their tremulous, haunting
cries. Farther on, the drive turns west on Rte. 200 at Clearwater. It then returns to Mis-
soula via the Blackfoot River corridor, the locale so movingly celebrated in
A River Runs
Through It,
Norman Maclean's memoir of his boyhood and youth in Montana.
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