This ride started from Florence, MT just off the Bitterroot Trail. Opted to ride south to Hamilton. The first couple miles from Florence are a little rough. The bike path shares the sidewalk in Florence, then has horizontal cracks every 10 yards over the next couple of miles. The path surface improves a couple miles north of Stevensville. It is a very gradual rise from Florence to just outside Hamilton, about 450 ft elevation gain over 22 miles. There is a construction project at mile 8.7. Looks like a new bike path bridge is being installed. The path goes into Victor, MT, then deviates on a side street at Victor Park. At mile 23, I turned left onto Highway 373 to Corvallis, MT. This is a 2-mile deviation into the city limits, but there is another bike path for most of the way.
Returned the same way, but there was a light cross/headwind.