Tubing

The Missoula County Sheriff's Office is reminding swimmers and floaters that with the hot weather, rivers and bridges are much more crowded, with people and vehicles.

The Independence Day weekend will  be hot and dry, sending hundreds of people to Western Montana rivers to cool off by boating, swimming or floating.

On Sunday, a six year-old girl drowned in a tragic accident on the Bitterroot River, when the boat she was riding in with her father capsized.

New landing now open for watercraft on the Clark Fork