South Huckleberry

Just north of the Colville Indian Reservation is the South Huckleberry Roadless Area—a landscape of shrub-steppe rolling hills and towering wooded mountains. Hikers can gawk at the view of Lake Roosevelt and the Kettle Crest while golden eagles and red-winged blackbirds soar overhead. A place of isolation, rich forests of lodgepole pine and western larch provide ample opportunities for solitude.

The area is a short distance from the Kettle Crest and provides the wilderness backdrop for hikers and skiers looking east from high points like Sherman and Snow Peaks within the Bald Snow Roadless Area.

South Huckleberry consists of 1,000 acres forest shrub-steppe, which is currently not well-represented in protected landscapes in eastern Washington. It is also home to many important large wildlife that rely on remoteness for their longevity. Animals that depend on native forests are harmed by road construction and the introduced invasive weeds attendant to new roads and off-road vehicles. The wolverine is such a species, and South Huckleberry has 7,000 acres of wolverine habitat. Other sensitive wildlife that rely on South Huckleberry include the Canada lynx and pine marten.