Maverick Mountain, MT

Maverick Mountain is a census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, consisting of residences in the valley of Grasshopper Creek at the base of Maverick Mountain Ski Area. The 2020 census counted 67 residents. Maverick Mountain is in the northern part of the county, along the Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway, 4 miles north of Polaris, the nearest post office, and 35 miles northwest of Interstate 15 at Dillon, the Beaverhead county seat. Maverick Mountain, for which the CDP and the ski area are named, rises to a summit elevation of 8,722 feet to the northwest. The short version is that Maverick Mountain carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Maverick Mountain: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The scenic byway continues north 34 miles to Wise River in the Big Hole River valley.