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| Travel Guide for Montana With its enormous treasure trove of nature's bounty and glory, Wild West heritage and tradition, and limitless possibilities in the solitude wilderness dwarfed by the big blue skies, Montana is fittingly and fondly nicknamed the Big Sky Country and the Treasure State. It is far easier for today's visitors to venture into the depth of this frontier state than it was for the First Nations People, the westward pioneers, the get-rich-quick fur trappers and prospectors, but tourists are no less stunned by the wondrous charisma of the magnificent mountain peaks and pinnacles, spectacular glaciated river valleys and lakes, luscious thickets of pine forests and rolling cattle-roaming high prairie than these gutsy trailblazers. The legendary Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail, scenic drives like the Going to the Sun Highway in Glacier National Park and the Beartooth Highway in Yellowstone Country, and lonesome highways of I-90 and I-15 squeezed between the dramatic mountain ranges of the northern Rockies, all afford sweeping scenic vistas interrupted only by roadside huts, Gold Rush ghost towns, resort properties, vintage bed and breakfast inns, and working cattle ranches. To behold the state at its best, visit some of the country's most attractive and cherished national and state parks, wildlife refuges and recreation areas, such as the Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, National Bison Range National Wildlife Refuge, Bob Marshall Wilderness, and Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, to name just a few showcase natural treasure under the big sky. Add the extravaganza of backcountry retreat and wilderness adventure to go along with the scenic splendor, your Montana travel experience will turn out to be an unforgettable one. It's hard to exhaust recreation opportunities Montana has to offer. From kayaking and rafting along the many whitewater rivers to hunting, hiking and camping in the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, from skiing and golfing at many of the world-class Montana summer and ski resorts to fly fishing by the many blue ribbon trout streams, Montana is quite a promised land for those savoring the outdoors fun. Fishing and skiing can be activities iconically Montana. Fly fishing along the Bitterroot River in the western Montana is sure to please the most ardent fishermen, while Fishaus Fly Fishing based in Hamilton and Campbell's Guided Fishing Trips offered in Bozeman are the professional resources you can resort to. For nice personal choices of a Montana fly fishing spot, ask locals. Lodging options specially designed for the anglers are wide available on the water's edge. Ranging from gracious Montana bed and breakfasts and rustic riverfront cabins and cottages to premier lake resort hotels in Montana, Montana hotels would make perfect home base to catch your "big ones". Most of Montana ski resorts would open around mid-late December and continue to operate well into April or May. Some of the more built-up Montana ski resorts, like Big Sky Resort and the Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Big Mountain in Whitefish, Discovery Basin in Philipsburg, Lost Trail in Darby and Red Lodge Mountain in Red Lodge, have full-blown resort facilities like restaurants, fitness centers, golf course and some of the most luxurious resort hotels in Montana to complement the multitude of snow-based activities. Anything there is to know about the Old Wild West is to be found on tap in Montana. With such names as Lewis & Clark, General George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Charles M. Russell to grace its epic of exploration, turbulence and grandeur, and various preservations, of national or statewide significance, portraying and protecting pages of prehistoric, Native American, Fur Trade, Gold Rush and others in the history of America, history and cultural heritage come alive everywhere in Montana. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument near Crow Agency, Big Hole National Battlefield near Wisdom, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site near Deer Lodge, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site near Culbertson, Bannack State Park near Dillon, site of the first gold strike in Montana, Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation near Ashland and Lame Deer, and the 15 stops along the Montana Dinosaur Trail, are among the most amazing themed destinations devoted to varied aspects of the state's history and heritage. To soak up as more Wild West ingredients as possible, select Billings, the largest city in Montana and home of the Montana State University, for the Lonesome Spur Ranch, the Western Heritage Center, Yellowstone Art Museum, and the Pompeys Pillar National Monument, the only remaining physical evidence along the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail with names of Lewis and Clark carved by themselves. Other attractions in Billings include ZooMontana, Moss Mansion, Montana Fair and so on. Billings also serve as a convenient staging area between the Yellowstone National Park and the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. You can expect an eclectic array of hotels in Billings Montana to temporarily settle in while adventuring in the outdoors or having your business meeting held in your familiar setting. Depart from Billings and westwards, I-90 will lead you to Bozeman, where you'll find Museum of the Rockies, Emerson Culture Center, Gallatin County Pioneer Museum, as well as the American Computer Museum, Montana State University-Bozeman, Bozeman Hot Springs, and others. I-90 and I-15 intersect at Butte, a craggy blue collar mining town known for the Berkley Pit, a former open pit copper mine, Copper King Mansion, World Museum of Mining. Head north along I-15, you'll arrive the elegant capital city Helena. With the Montana State Capitol, the Last Chance Tour Train rides through the many magnificent mansions, and the majestic St. Helena Cathedral to temper a feel more of the rambunctious gold rush boomtown days, which is depicted in the Montana Historical Society and Museum and Museum of Gold Collection in Well Fargo Bank, Helena is justifiably hailed as the Queen City of the Rockies. Stop at Great Falls, home of the western artist Charles M. Russell, to visit the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center, C.M. Russell Museum, Montana Cowboys Association Museum and Bar, Montana ExpoPark Great Falls, site of the Montana State Fair and Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals, Ulm Pishkun State Park, a prehistoric bison kill site. If back to I-90 and head northwest, Missoula would be the first worthy stop in Montana's Glacier Country. The Historical Museum, Rocky Elk Foundation Wildlife Visitor Center, Art Museum of Missoula, National Bison Ranch and the annual Western Montana Fair and Rodeo also offer authentic insights into the western aspects of the state. Other than that, Missoula has A Carousel Museum and the AMOBASH Skatepark, which are huge drawing cards for the kiddies, and the University of Montana. A visit to Montana is definitely an incomplete one if the Glacier National Park is left unvisited. US Hwy 93 leads north from Missoula onto Kalispell, Whitefish and West Glacier, three of the most developed gateways to the park. There are many well-suited Montana hotels, motels and resorts and bed and breakfast inns waiting in the area. More specifically, Kalispell Montana hotels are more of the national chains variety, while hotels in Whitefish and West Glacier are mostly characterized by vintage Montana bed and breakfasts and hunting-lodge converted resort properties like the Garden Wall Inn and the Good Medicine Lodge, and Lake McDonald Lodge. Montana travel guide is copyrighted. It cannot be copied. |
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