The Blackfoot River, hard hit for decades by various sources of pollution, is on the mend after being snubbed 25 years ago in "A River Runs Through It," the film in which it was the supposed star, ...

Summer is just months away and it’s never too early to start making plans. Reservations for Blackfoot River float-in campsites open on March 3. There are only eight designated campsites in the ...

I was on The Blackfoot River the other day, but I didn’t bring my fly rod. Despite being fly rod free, I finally did a thing. For the first time, I attended a gig at the KettleHouse Amphitheater. Les ...

Tucked in the valleys and mountains that surround Ovando and Seeley Lake are the many creeks that feed into the Blackfoot River. Among them are North Fork of the Blackfoot, Monture Creek, Morrell ...

Western Montana’s Blackfoot River draws anglers from all over the world thanks to its thriving populations of brown, rainbow, and cutthroat trout. Made famous as the setting of Norman Maclean’s A ...

The Blackfoot River Wildlife Management Area wants to show off the results of a million-dollar facelift of the river and surrounding uplands with an open house and walkabout this month. The public is ...

The trout rose in a smooth arc, took my tumbling salmon fly, and completed its curve in an undulating, revelatory sequence. A greenish speckled back and a flash of scarlet on silver along its side ...

John N. Maclean, a journalist with the Chicago Tribune for 30 years, is the author of "Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River." When after many years I finally found a way back to the ...