Trips
From Glacier to the High Plains to Yellowstone, explore these trips and create your own by saving places to your bucket list.
The King’s Hill Scenic Byway highlights the majesty of the mountains. By the time you get to Niehart, you’ll be free of hustle and bustle and ...
When it gets cold, time freezes in the Seeley-Swan Valley. At least, that’s how it feels when you cozy into the vintage Double Arrow Lodge or the ...
Helena is the town you wish you grew up in—riding the carousel, picking out candy at the Parrot Confectionary, skiing Great Divide and taking family road trips ...
Folks have found Billings a comfy haunt for at least 100,000 years—just consult the ancient petroglyphs at Pictograph Cave State Park. The wildlife drawn on the ...
Ennis, Sheridan, Twin Bridges
Whether you’re staring down breakfast at Yesterday's Soda Fountain or bellying up to the bar at the Blue Anchor in Twin Bridges ...
Deer Lodge, Drummond and Boulder
Who knew that jailtime, cows, radioactive gas, and graveyards could be this entertaining? In humbly historic Deer Lodge, peer into incarcerated life at ...
Makoshika State Park (the biggest in the state) packs a potent mix: deep ravines, miles of trails, abundant wildlife, fossils, and even a disk golf course. Here, campers ...
With a twanging, classic-rock soundtrack provided by annual music festivals like Rockin the Rivers and the Headwaters Country Jam, Three Forks is synonymous with Montana summer. Four-wheelers and ...
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Just because you’ve oohed and ahhed over Helena’s impressive Capitol grounds doesn’t mean you’ve “done” Helena. To get your local’s cred, you’ll ...
Odds are, if you’re in Fort Benton, you’re here to canoe the Wild and Scenic stretch of the Missouri River, following in the oar-strokes of Lewis ...
In Bozeman, the tan lines are real, the peak-bagging stories are true, and the burly mountain bikes aren’t just for show. With Yellowstone National Park, Hyalite Canyon ...
Start the 71-mile Kings Hill Scenic Byway in Belt, home to the Harvest Moon Brewing Company and the Belt Creek Café. Then, take Highway 89 to Sluice Boxes ...
If hot springs, fresh air, and local flavor are your nirvana, then the Paradise Valley lives up to its name. Bliss begins in artsy, low-key Livingston, where red ...
Red Lodge is one of those charming little Montana towns that sucks you right in. Maybe you just stop for a burger at Red Box Car. Then you ...
Turns out, polar opposites come together in polar conditions. In West Yellowstone, cross-country skiers peacefully glide along the Riverside Ski Trail while snowmobilers dive into the area's ...
This is the stuff of sportsman's dreams—timbered hunting lodges, endless forests, ample game, and just a smidgen of civilization. Welcome to the Yaak, Montana's Northwestern-most ...
The "Richest Hill on Earth" is Butte, America—a city flush with history, culture, geology and adventure around every corner. Jump right in with a tour from Old ...
The Bitterroot Valley is storybook Montana—outdoor opportunities, quaint historic towns, craft breweries and burgers of legendary proportions. Catch fluff without frills at Lost Trail Powder Mountain, 27km ...
In Big Sky, fresh experiences abound, with no experience necessary. Never driven a dog sled? Spirit of the North Dog Sled Adventures changes that. Haven’t performed any ...
No one leaves Miles City a stranger. Expect smiles and waves from the locals on your first stroll through Main Street, plan on the patrons at the Hole ...
The bad news: Havre's heyday as a rollicking, lawless Western town is over.
The good news: you can still check out opium dens, speakeasies and brothels (safely ...
Clean-cut, classy Whitefish has enough resort-town swankness to elicit oohhs and ahhs—and the humble Montana upbringing to keep real about it. Sure, cosmopolitan winter wayfarers may arrive ...
Cowboy culture clashes right into 1960s kitsch to create the singular appeal of Great Falls. By day, you're in full John Wayne mode, absorbing frontier artifacts and ...
The finer things in life, minus the refinement. In Dillon, it's a tie as to whether the most gourmet fare in town is served out of Sparky ...
Winter in tiny, friendly P-Burg is like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting, complete with cozy lodging and a medley of rosy-cheek-inducing activities. First, tear yourself away ...