HD 575 covers the upper Clarks Fork Yellowstone drainage and the country running south toward the Wyoming border into the Sunlight Basin and the Beartooth-Absaroka high country. Elevations run from about 4,500 feet on the Clarks Fork canyon floor to over 11,000 feet on the wilderness peaks. The Clarks Fork canyon itself is a dramatic deep-cut sandstone-and-volcanic gorge—the river passes through Box Canyon and the Clarks Fork Canyon (an "Outstanding Natural Resource" in WY classification) before reaching the Bighorn Basin. The country is high, dry, and ruggedly beautiful—Douglas fir and limber pine parkland on south aspects, dense lodgepole and mixed conifer on cooler faces, spruce-fir on the upper drainages, with limestone outcrops, rocky ridges, and big rolling parks. Elk in the upper drainages; mule deer throughout the timbered breaks; mountain goats and bighorn sheep on the cliffs; black bear and grizzly bears (you're in the southern edge of the GYE bear country here). Custer-Gallatin NF and the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness on the upper country, with private ranchland (some of the larger Sunlight Basin recreational outfits and a few working cattle ranches) on the lower flanks. WY-296 (the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway) provides paved access from Cody, WY into the canyon and continues over Dead Indian Pass; this is the principal access road. The MT-WY state line cuts the unit. Cody WY is the practical supply town with full services; Red Lodge is over the Beartooth Highway in summer. Cell service is gone past the canyon mouth. The country is bear-aware territory and a real wilderness experience for an HD that's accessible by paved road.