Helena, Montana, known as the Queen City of the Rockies, was founded during the 1864 gold rush at Last Chance Gulch and quickly grew into a prosperous mining boomtown.
Missouri Headwaters State Park in Montana, located northeast of Three Forks at 4,045 feet elevation, spans 532 acres where the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin rivers converge to form the Missouri River, a site visited by Lewis and Clark in 1805 and used for millennia by Native Americans like the Flathead, Bannock, and Shoshone.
West Yellowstone, Montana, was founded in 1908 following the completion of a railroad branch from St. Anthony, Idaho, to the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
Greycliff Prairie Dog Town State Park covers 98 acres at 3,600 feet elevation on the eastern edge of Greycliff in southeast Montana's Sweet Grass County, just off Interstate 90 near the Yellowstone River.
The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Montana is a peaceful spiritual site located near Arlee within the Flathead Indian Reservation, designed as a pilgrimage destination and place of worship open to people of all faiths.
Les Mason State Park is a peaceful day-use park covering eight acres on the east shore of Whitefish Lake, about four miles north of Whitefish, Montana, USA.
Flathead Lake in northwestern Montana is the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River in the lower 48 states, covering about 191.5 square miles.
Lake County, Montana, was formed in 1923 from parts of Missoula and Flathead counties and is named after Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake in the western United States.
The Western Heritage Center in Billings, Montana, is a regional history museum housed in the historic Parmly Billings Memorial Library, a Richardsonian Romanesque building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Earthquake Lake in Montana was created suddenly on August 17, 1959, when a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake triggered a massive landslide that blocked the Madison River, causing water to back up and form a new lake about six miles long.
McGinnis Meadows Ranch in northwest Montana is an authentic working cattle and guest ranch established in 1998 by Shayne and Jo-Anne, inspired by the Buck Brannaman style of horsemanship.
