Montana Travel Guide
Mountain lake in Glacier National Park. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Montana is Big Sky country at full scale. Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road is the most spectacular drive in America: 80 km over Logan Pass between hanging valleys and waterfalls. The park's glaciers are retreating but the scenery is not.
Yellowstone's north entrances sit in Montana (Gardiner, West Yellowstone). Beyond the parks: Bozeman's college-town energy, the Little Bighorn battlefield, and the Missouri River's Gates of the Mountains.
Destinations in Montana
Going-to-the-Sun RoadThe 80 km alpine drive; vehicle reservations required in summer.
Many GlacierGrinnell Glacier trail, the historic hotel, grizzly country.
Yellowstone north (Gardiner)Mammoth Hot Springs and the Lamar Valley, the park's wildlife heart.- Little Bighorn BattlefieldThe 1876 battle site with the ranger talks.
- BozemanMain Street, the Museum of the Rockies' dinosaurs.
- Virginia CityThe preserved 1863 gold-rush town.
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Top Cities & towns in Montana
Regional food
- Huckleberry pie (the mountain berry, late summer)
- Elk burger (the game-meat staple)
- Pasties (the mining-town pie)
Getting there
Bozeman (BZN), Kalispell (FCA) and Great Falls (GTF) are the gateways. Glacier's road is fully open roughly late June to mid-September; book lodging a year ahead.