Medicine Lodge

Medicine Lodge is the next door neighbor to the Sheep Creek Trail. It's almost as pretty but has slightly less on offer, largely because much of the land along the main road is private. There are access points, however, and as you move south and uphill toward the Medicine Lodge-Sheep Divide, the land opens and is public. This is big country, and remote. The Beaverhead and Tendoy mountains line the valley, and the Lima and Italian peaks poke through to the south. I biked 65 miles of the Medicine Lodge in a long bumpy spectacular fall day and saw less than a dozen cars in eight hours. Pronghorn antelope