Mullan Pass is a mountain pass in the western United States, in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. It sits on the Continental Divide on the border between Powell and Lewis and Clark counties at 5,902 feet (1,799 m) above sea level. Located in the Helena National Forest, the pass is thirteen miles (20 km) west of the city of Helena.
The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) used the pass for its line from Logan to Garrison via Helena, built in 1883. This line was the NP's primary freight route and was also used by their secondary passenger train, the Mainstreeter. The NP also built an alternate line over Homestake Pass, which was used by their primary passenger train, the North Coast Limited. The rail line at Mullan Pass is currently operated by BNSF Railway; it crosses under the pass and the continental divide at 5,566 feet (1,697 m) via the 3,426-foot (0.65 mi; 1.04 km) Mullan Tunnel.
The pass was named after Lieutenant John Mullan, the U.S. Army engineer who first crossed the pass on March 22, 1854, and later supervised construction of the Mullan Road, the first road over the pass, in 1860.
MullanPass is a mountain pass in the western United States, in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. It sits on the Continental Divide on the border between...
Helena, Montana that is traversed by U.S. Route 12. The pass is one of three passes (MacDonald, Mullan and Priest) used in the 1870s-80s for travel between...
Pacific's easier route via Helena, crossing the MullanPass. It is unknown if that the rail line over the pass will ever be used again, but BNSF has resisted...
(340 m). The elevation of the highway pass on I-90 is a moderate 4,720 feet (1,440 m). The historic MullanPass, constructed as a wagon road by the U...
and at the pass runs briefly east–west, with Idaho on the north side and Montana the south. The pass separates the communities of Mullan in Shoshone...
Mullan Road was the first wagon road to cross the Rocky Mountains to the Inland of the Pacific Northwest. It was built by U.S. Army troops under the command...
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Montana via Helena, Montana and MullanPass, and from Logan, Montana, to Garrison, Montana, via Butte, Montana, and Homestake Pass. The division encompassed...
the Rocky Mountains over the continental divide at MullanPass near Helena, Montana and Bozeman Pass near Bozeman, Montana. In January 2022, BNSF agreed...
been decoupled from their locomotives by a train crew on MullanPass rolled backwards down the pass, traveling nine miles back into the city of Helena and...
Continental Divide in September 1911 when he flew fifteen miles over MullanPass. Cromwell Dixon was born in San Francisco July 9, 1892, to Annie and...
the Yellowstone Trail. Some sections of the highway follow the historic Mullan Road, a military road constructed from 1859 to 1862 between Fort Walla Walla...
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River and Interstate 90 into Shoshone County to Lookout Pass on the Montana border. Captain Mullan and his crew celebrated the 4th of July 1861 on top of...
939 m) Mullan Tunnel, rail tunnel, c. 1883, Montana Rail Link (formerly Northern Pacific Railway), under the Continental Divide at MullanPass, northwest...
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known...
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Lookout Pass. I-90 was created by the federal government in 1957, following the general route of U.S. Route 10 (US 10) and the mid-19th century Mullan Road...
Mullan discovered "Hell Gate Pass", a mountain pass near the headwaters of the Little Blackfoot River, on September 24, 1853. In March 1854, Mullan discovered...
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