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Cirque Lake

Under five acres a short walk west of Jordan, and nothing published about it anywhere. Drop your packs at Jordan and go up empty-handed.

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Jordan Lake

Fifteen acres on trail across the Lake Plateau, full of thin cutthroat. FWP asked for more harvest here in 1969 and is still asking.

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Sundown Lake

Five acres and an excellent campsite past Columbine Pass. Small fish now, though FWP has pulled a twenty-inch cutthroat out of it.

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Pentad Lake

Forty acres and fifty-eight feet deep over Columbine Pass, on trail the whole way. Abundant cutthroat that nobody can account for.

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Favonius Lake

Twenty-five acres over Columbine Pass and on trail the whole way. Shallow, and full of spawning cutthroat that outfish FWP's nets.

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Mouse Lake

The first lake past Columbine Pass and off trail. Abundant cutthroat to nearly seventeen inches, spawning on their own on the shoreline gravel.

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Mountain View Lake

A mile and a half straight up the creek above the Stillwater mine settling ponds, and 1,500 feet of it. Know your property lines before you go.

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Little Goose Lake

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Goose Lake

Eight miles of jeep road north of Cooke City, then a quarter mile on foot. Nearly every stocked Yellowstone cutthroat in Montana traces back to this lake.