Does anyone know the status or condition of the "Guard Station" airstrip about 20 E-SE of Meadow Creek in Montana (47.792948,-112.943959)? I see Xs on the runway on Google satellite, but it looks to be in good condition. It also looks like decent access to a great looking stream and the Continental Divide Trail.

Not that there aren't other nice BC flying opportunities very close by, but abandoned and infrequently used airfields hold a certain allure.

That is one of the closed wilderness strips although I can't recall its name. See this link for some more general information. It wouldn't hurt to talk to the Montana RAF representative about the status of these strips.

http://www.backcountrypilot.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6539&p=83395&hilit=montana+wilderness#p83395

I believe it is Gate's Park that was built by the Forest Service in the early 1960's. It was promptly closed in the mid 1960's by the Forest Service who built it. It was built to give access to the Bob Marshall Wilderness area, but it didn't fit within the wilderness plan, so was closed. Everything hauled in to build it, had to be hauled out. We flew a DC3 in to haul out a tractor used to build the strip, which had been cut up to get in the plane. We used a log tripod/lift to get the cut up parts loaded. We could have used Courierguy (Tom) and his lifting expertise, we dropped the biggest and heaviest part on a helpers foot. There was a caretaker(real old timer and character) that lived there most of the year who would harvest an elk and use every part. I was not smart enough to carry a camera and document a wilderness lifestyle that would disappear from the lower 48 in just a few years. It is a beautiful airstrip and still very useable, which explains the X's placed on it.
The difference between this strip and some of the wilderness strips in Idaho, Gates Park was built in an existing wilderness area and many of the wilderness strips in Idaho were grandfathered in when new wilderness areas were established.

Yep, that's Gate's Park. There are several other abandoned strips in the area (along the South Fork of the Flathead). They are all in wilderness areas. If you land at any of them the FS will give you a ticket if they see you. The Montana aeronautical chart (put out by the aeronautics division) used to have all the old strips on it, but it looks like they took them off this year. Here are the ones I remember:

Big Prairie:
N47 30' 30''
W113 14' 16''

Blackbear:
N47 43' 15''
W113 22' 36''

Holbrook:
N47 34' 30''
W113 18' 35''