Category: Montana local

Missoula  Parks & Recreation
Greenough Park
Greenough Park Trail is a 0.8 mile loop described on TrailLink as “one of urban Missoula’s best”.
“…. Rattlesnake Creek …. courses through the park’s center. Cottonwoods and conifers are thick throughout, as are willows and other woody and herbaceous plants. It’s a great place for bird-watching”  “Several dirt paths wind through the trees and along Rattlesnake Creek”
Kim Williams Nature Trail 4.2 miles from TrailLink:  the trail  “…meanders alongside the Clark Fork River in downtown Missoula. It connects to the Riverfront Trail, giving users an uninterrupted 4 miles of trail from which to enjoy the river or access Missoula’s neighborhoods, commercials areas, parks, and the university.”
Riverfront Trail 3.5 miles “follows an abandoned right-of-way along the old Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad, commonly known as the Milwaukee Road.”

This guide to “trails in & around Missoula” has excellent descriptions and directions.

Butte-Silver Bow
Parks and Recreation
Ulrich/Schotte Nature Trail “is a paved two-mile trail along wetlands, pond and a restored creek. The trail follows Blacktail Creek near Interstate 90, from the Visitors Center on George Street. The …. creek has willowed banks populated with ducks, geese and other birds”
According to the Montana Disability and Health Program website, there are 22 miles of “paved, handicapped accessible trails [that] wrap through and around the city of Butte.”  It doesn’t say to what degree any of these go into natural areas.

Billings
Two Moon Park “Two Moon Park (Yellowstone County) contains several narrow, gravel-surfaced trails that wind through stands of cottonwoods above and beside the storied Yellowstone River. The trails – Roche Jeune, Dull Knife, Mallard and Weeping Wall – can be linked together in various ways to come up with a number of do-it-yourself of loops and out-and-backs.” ….”At the Two Moon Park entrance you can jump onto the paved Dutcher Trail ,…. which from there winds down to the Yellowstone then upstream to Coulson Park.”
Swords Park Trail is 3.8 miles and described by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy as wheelchair accessible.
Norm Schoenthal Island Trail  1.9 miles.  Reviewers on AllTrails.com describe it as easy, and full of off-leash dogs and mosquitos.  Best to go early in the morning.

Here is a website from Billings Parks and Recreation.  It describes local trails by categories such as soft or hard surface.   I suspect many of these trails would qualify for this website, but ease and accessibility are not directly addressed.   Their telephone number is (406) 657-8371.