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Fort Fizzle Historic Site
This relaxing picnic site along U.S. Highway 12 offers interpretive signs explaining the history of Fort Fizzle and invites you to be a part of a replica 19th century military entrenchment.
Fort Fizzle is a wooden barricade on the Lolo Trail erected by Missoula volunteers led by Captain Rawn to stop the advance of Chief Joseph during the Nez Perce war. Captain Rawn had clear orders. He said the Nez Perce could not pass; however, the barricade failed when the Nez Perce, with their horses and possessions, climbed a steep ravine behind the ridge to the north and bypassed the soldiers.
MT , 59847
Website: http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c4/04_...
Phone: 406-329-3814 (Missoula Ranger Station)
