Lost 40 Scenic and Natural Area

Lost 40 owes its old-growth pine forest to a surveying error that occurred during the Public Land Survey in 1882. The trees were missed by loggers because surveyors mistakenly mapped the area as Coddington Lake. The site was re-surveyed and the error corrected in 1960. Shortly after, it was incorporated into Big Fork State Forest and its old trees have since endured.