![]() The lake is easily one of the most popular day-use destinations in this region of Montana. Mystic Lake is pretty much the only place in the Beartooths where you get the unique opportunity to see a hydroelectric dam in action and enjoy the incredibly scenic surrounding wilderness at the same time. The natural rugged appeal of the lake and the surrounding area has remained largely intact, aside from a pipeline running along the mountainside. A landslide actually breached the dam in 1984 though, and it ended up being removed a year later. In the 1920s and 1930s, the storage capacity of this natural body of water was raised somewhat with the construction of a 400-feet long dam by the Montana Power Company. ![]() Mystic Lake sits within the boundaries of the Custer National Forest, of which the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area covers over 900,000 acres, as well as stretches of the Gallatin National Forest and the Shoshone National Forest. It also has some sandy beaches along the 6-mile shoreline about as decent and also as long as you are likely to find anywhere in the state. The lake is one of, if not the deepest in the region of the Beartooth Mountains, at approximately 300 feet. Mystic Lake is a natural body of water located deep within Montana’s Yellowstone Country, about 80 miles southwest of Billings.
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