Cadotte Pass | |
Elevation Ft: | 6073 |
Location: | Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States |
Range: | Rocky Mountains |
Coordinates: | 47.0994°N -112.3936°W |
Topo: | USGS Cadotte Pass (MT) |
Cadotte Pass, known in the mid to late 1800s as Cadotte's Pass, is a pass in the Rocky Mountains located on the Continental Divide in the U.S. state of Montana. Pierre Cadotte, a white settler at Fort Benton, Montana, explored the pass in 1851.[1] Prior to his exploration Tribal people utilized the pass while migrating to the buffalo hunting plains around the Sun River.[2] Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, named the pass after Cadotte in 1853.[3] The pass is 6073feet above sea level.[4]