A swath of land within the Tobacco Root Mountains that was privately owned is now part of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest after nonprofit organization The Conservation Fund facilitated a land sale this fall.

The 600-acre inholding parcel covered the upper reaches of Dry Boulder Lakes Road including sections of trail that are the gateway to Lower and Upper Boulder Lakes. The area is now fully open and accessible to the public.

“Connecting Montana’s patchwork of public and private lands is the kind of problem the Land and Water Conservation Fund was created to solve,” Gary Sullivan, Montana state director for The Conservation Fund, said in a statement.

According to The Conservation Fund, the trail to reach the lakes winds through roughly four miles of alpine forest and granite ba

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