MT E-Scounting Question

[Ttannahill14]

Doing some E-Scouting and as always mentioned the key is getting away from the roads. I'm having a hard time determining what is a public road on my onx maps system. Seems like they're everywhere! Certain spots on a map I can get away from them but i need one certain road to be an actual road if that makes sense.

I've attached a pic... not an area I'm actually looking to hunt just for example purposes.


Highway is the yellow line on the north... I could drive west on that... Take Burley road south... I can take that all the way south to the BLM in the souther portion of the picture... or I could take a little un-named road to the southwest and access it from the other side... if that's actually a road??? Some of these roads when I compare to google maps are barely roads more like 2 tracks. One of the biggest worries as a non-resident is being somewhere I'm not supposed to be on accident... just trying to mark some spots on GPS for pre-dawn hike ins.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Definitely tough, you need to call the county and/or the local game Warden. There are a number of threads about this on the forum. I think that specific piece of BLM is land locked though. In my experience you don't have to worry too much about driving on to private property in MT, if you aren't allowed on the road there will typically be a gate (might even be one if you are allowed.

If a road isn't on this that's a good indicator it's not public. ( Zoom in all the way, roads are scale dependent)
http://svc.mt.gov/msl/mtcadastral/


also for your example, per the county website

https://mdt.mt.gov/other/webdata/external/Planning/maps/county/POWD_CS.PDF

 

[Ttannahill14]

Perfect exactly what I needed. Thanks!

I’m not too worried about staying on the right side of the fence. I’m more worried about have a dozen spots on my map marked and ready to go only to find them behind all behind a locked gate.

Definitely tough, you need to call the county and/or the local game Warden. There are a number of threads about this on the forum. I think that specific piece of BLM is land locked though. In my experience you don't have to worry too much about driving on to private property in MT, if you aren't allowed on the road there will typically be a gate (might even be one if you are allowed.

If a road isn't on this that's a good indicator it's not public. ( Zoom in all the way, roads are scale dependent)
http://svc.mt.gov/msl/mtcadastral/


also for your example, per the county website

https://mdt.mt.gov/other/webdata/external/Planning/maps/county/POWD_CS.PDF