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Flathead Lake
lake, Montana, United States
Flathead Lake, lake in the Flathead National Forest of northwestern Montana, U.S. Flathead Lake marks the southern limit of the Rocky Mountain Trench, a structural depression extending northward to the Liard Plain of British Columbia, Canada. Bordered on the eastern shore by the Mission Range and on the west by the forested foothills of the Salish Mountains, it is 30 miles (48 km) long, 15 miles (24 km) wide, and 220 feet (67 metres) deep. It has an area that ranges from about 197 square miles (510 square km) to about 188 square miles (487 square km), making it the ...(100 of 180 words)