Custer National Forest
1310 Main Street
Billings, MT 59105

(406) 657-6200

The Custer National Forest has offices in Billings, Red Lodge, Ashland, and Camp Crook, SD. The forest encompasses about 1.3 million acres, with 345,599 acres that are Designated Wilderness. The Custer is well known for lake and stream fishing, and provides habitat for mountain goats, big horn sheep, elk, muley and white-tail deer, black bear, cougar, and moose.

The Custer National Forest has a Supervisor's Office, based in Billings, Mont. and three Ranger Districts located at Ashland, Mont., Red Lodge, Mont., and Camp Crook, SD.

The Sioux Ranger District, located in the southeast corner of Montana and the northwest corner of South Dakota, is often, and justly, described as "islands of green in a sea of rolling prairie" - hills or mesas of ponderosa pine rise above rolling grasslands.

One of the largest populations of Merlins (a small falcon) known in North America occurs on the District.

Our southwest section, the Beartooth Ranger District is one of the gateways to Yellowstone National Park, and is part of the greater Yellowstone area, one of the largest intact temperate ecosystems left on the planet.

Views from Beartooth Scenic Byway are spectacular, as the road winds upward of 11,000 feet. The Beartooth Mountains are one of the crowning scenic glories of the Custer Forest, offering some of the best hikingfishing around - and a scenic byway that is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

South-central Montana's Ashland Ranger District offers a variety of topography, varying from rolling grasslands to steep rock outcrops. Vegetation varies from prairie to dense stands of ponderosa pine.

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