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Bear Dance Montana Map

Explore Bear Dance, Montana, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Bear Dance, Montana

How to Use This Bear Dance, Montana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bear Dance, Montana. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Montana or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bear Dance.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Bear Dance
State	Montana (MT)
County	Lake County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	47.901904
Longitude	-114.027316
Population	281
Density	39.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	59911
Area Code	406
County Seat	Polson
School District	Bigfork Elementary School District

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About Bear Dance, Montana

Bear Dance is a locality in Lake County, Montana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 281. The population density is 39.1 people per km². Bear Dance is located at 47.9019°N, 114.0273°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 59911.

Bear Dance occupies a high, quiet expanse of land where the air carries a crisp, pine-scented clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the horizon. It lies 23.3 miles southeast of Kalispell, MT (from Kalispell, MT: bearing 146°T), and is situated 10.3 miles south-southeast of Bigfork. The landscape is dominated by the sprawling, crystalline presence of Flathead Lake, which lies only six miles from the center of Bear Dance, its vast blue surface reflecting the immense sky like a fallen shard of heaven. Glen Creek winds its way through the terrain with a persistent, low murmur, carving a path through the earth less than a mile from the surveyed riverbed. To the west, the distant, serrated silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains stand as silent guardians over the terrain, while the immediate surroundings are defined by the dense, evergreen embrace of Flathead National Forest, which encompasses the entire locale.

Bear Dance carries the quiet weight of a region shaped by the intersection of rugged wilderness and the slow, deliberate pulse of the inland northwest. The economy here remains rooted in the land, drawing sustenance from the timber resources of the nearby Swan River State Forest and the seasonal rhythms of life in the Flathead Valley. Historically, the people of Bear Dance have lived in accordance with the seasons, moving between the demands of local forestry and the stewardship of the surrounding wild. The pace of life is marked not by the clock, but by the shifting angle of the sun against the bark of cedar and fir, creating a culture that values endurance and the deep, abiding silence of the woods.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Flathead National Forest (National Forest) — 0.2 mi, 090° E · 2.4M acres
Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 184° S
Flathead Lake Biological Station (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 184° S
Flathead Lake/Yellow Bay State Park (State Park) — 1.7 mi, 183° S
Swan River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.7 mi, 081° E · 3,866 acres
Swan River Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 7.0 mi, 107° E
East Shore Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 7.4 mi, 360° N
Swan River State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 8.0 mi, 137° SE
Flathead Lake/Wild Horse Island State Park (State Park) — 8.7 mi, 240° SW
Johnson Homestead (Historic Ruins) — 10.5 mi, 247° SW
Johnson Barn (Historic Ruins) — 10.6 mi, 247° SW
Base Camp Bigfork (Attraction) — 11.1 mi, 348° N
Bigfork Summer Playhouse (Theatre) — 11.3 mi, 349° N
Mission Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 14.3 mi, 166° S · 76k acres
Miracle of America Museum and Pioneer Village (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 195° S
Echo Lake Cosway Entrance (Attraction) — 15.9 mi, 360° N
Flathead Lake Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 16.3 mi, 193° S
Bob Marshall Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 19.4 mi, 116° SE · 1.1M acres
Hogheaven Work (Attraction) — 20.7 mi, 269° W
Glacier Art Museum (Museum) — 24.2 mi, 327° NW
Northwest Montana History Museum (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 327° NW
Albino Buffalo (Public Artwork) — 24.4 mi, 329° NW
Family Life Christian Church Large Wooden Cross (Monument) — 24.6 mi, 323° NW
Memorial Bench (Monument) — 25.1 mi, 328° NW
Memorial Plaque (Monument) — 25.1 mi, 328° NW
Garden of the Rockies Museum (Museum) — 25.9 mi, 188° S
McClaren Hall (Theatre) — 26.3 mi, 329° NW
Wanda Hollensteiner Art Gallery (Gallery) — 26.3 mi, 329° NW
Cinemark Signature Stadium 14 (Cinema) — 26.8 mi, 329° NW
Glacier National Park (National Park) — 32.0 mi, 037° NE · 1.0M acres

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