Big Arm, a unit of Flathead Lake State Park, sits on the western shore of Flathead Lake in northwestern Montana and looks out toward the Mission Mountains.
Missoula, Montana, is a vibrant city located in western Montana at the confluence of five mountain ranges and three major rivers—the Clark Fork, Bitterroot, and Blackfoot.
The World Museum of Mining in Butte, Montana, opened in 1965 and is located on the site of the historic Orphan Girl Mine, which operated from 1875 to 1956, producing silver, lead, and zinc.
Livingston, Montana, founded in 1882 along the Yellowstone River, developed originally as Clark City but quickly grew when the Northern Pacific Railroad established it as a key division headquarters and gateway to Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, primarily located in northwestern Wyoming with small portions extending into Montana (about 3%) and Idaho (about 1%), covers roughly 3,472 square miles and is renowned as the oldest national park in the United States.
Garnet Ghost Town in Montana is a well-preserved former gold mining town that dates back to the 1860s and is located high in the Garnet Mountain Range east of Missoula.
Tizer Botanic Garden and Arboretum, located near Jefferson City, Montana, was founded in 1997 by Richard Krott and Belva Lotzer on a picturesque property in the Elkhorn Mountains.
First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana features what is believed to be the largest bison cliff jump in North America, used by Native American tribes for at least a thousand years before the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Brush Lake State Park, Montana's sole state park in the northeast corner, lies four miles east of Dagmar in Sheridan County, near the Canadian border and about 30 miles east of Plentywood.
Tower Rock State Park in Cascade County, Montana, near Great Falls, covers 140 acres along the Missouri River at the mouth of Missouri River Canyon in the Adel Mountains Volcanic Field, centered on a striking 424-foot-high shonkinite rock formation sacred to Native American tribes like the Blackfeet and noted by Lewis and Clark as a landmark.
Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is a renowned cultural and natural history museum affiliated with Montana State University and the Smithsonian Institution.
Somers Beach State Park covers 106 acres on the northwest shore of Flathead Lake near Somers, Montana, featuring expansive sandy beaches at low water levels from fall through spring and shallow, safe swimming areas in summer amid wetlands, grasslands, and riparian zones.
Chief Plenty Coups State Park is a day-use historic site on the Crow Indian Reservation in south-central Montana, about 40 minutes south of Billings near Pryor at the base of the Pryor Mountains.
Swiftcurrent Lake is a picturesque alpine lake located in the Many Glacier region of Glacier National Park, Montana, at an elevation of about 4,878 feet.
Logan State Park covers 17 acres on the north shore of Middle Thompson Lake in northwest Montana, midway between Libby and Kalispell along U.S. Route 2, nestled within the scenic 3,000-acre Thompson Chain of Lakes amid dense forests of western larch, Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine.
Virginia Falls is a beautiful 50-foot multi-tiered waterfall located in Glacier National Park, Montana, accessible via a popular hiking trail starting from the St. Mary Falls Shuttle Stop on the Going-to-the-Sun Road.
Sluice Boxes State Park in central Montana, 12 miles south of Belt along the Kings Hill Scenic Byway, spans the northernmost eight miles of dramatic Belt Creek canyon in the Little Belt Mountains, featuring towering limestone cliffs, ledges, and remnants of 19th-century mining towns, railroads, and cabins from silver and limestone booms.
