HD 702 covers the Swan Range and the Swan Valley between Bigfork and Seeley Lake—one of the wettest, most spectacularly forested corridors in Montana, walled by the Mission Mountains on the west and the Swan Range on the east. Elevations run from about 3,200 feet on the Swan Valley floor near Swan Lake up to over 9,000 feet on the Swan Range and Mission Mountains divides. The Swan is a long, narrow, glacier-cut valley filled with western larch, lodgepole, Douglas fir, western red cedar, and grand fir—when the larch turn gold in October, the corridor is one of the visual highlights of fall in Montana. The Bob Marshall Wilderness lies just over the Swan crest to the east; the Mission Mountains Wilderness lies over the western divide. Elk, whitetail, mule deer, mountain goats on the cliffs, moose in the willow bottoms, black and grizzly bears—genuine NW MT wilderness wildlife. Flathead National Forest covers the bulk of the public ground with the Bob Marshall and Mission Mountains wildernesses on the divides; significant private valley-floor ground (Plum Creek/Weyerhaeuser-legacy timberland, working ranches, increasing rec properties); CSKT Tribal land on the southwestern Mission flank. MT-83 (the Swan Highway) is the paved spine through the valley; forest roads climb both flanks toward wilderness trailheads. Bigfork at the north end and Seeley Lake at the south are the supply towns; Kalispell and Missoula are the bigger stops. Cell service holds along MT-83 and dies fast on the side roads. The wilderness pack-out from the Bob Marshall is real work; the Swan Range elk hunt is one of MT's most committing.