Montana's scenic beauty is much more than its famed mountain destinations, as the Terry Badlands demonstrate. Badlands are a unique type of topography indicative of flatter prairie regions and ...

The 15 Best Montana Vacations Plan your next getaway to one of these scenic locales or combine several itineraries to create your own amazing Montana vacation.

Garnet was established in 1895 at First Chance Gulch, tucked in the Garnet Range, when Armistead Mitchell built a stamp mill (a machine that crushes ore into powder, often used to extract valuable ...

Plenty of tourists drive the Beartooth Highway, a spectacularly scenic 68-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 212 beginning and ending in Montana (open seasonally). The views from the Montana section ...

Ziegler and other friends made seven trips to Washington, D.C., in the past five years to ask Montana members of Congress to designate the creek under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

Just an amazing place." The Flathead River will be featured in the same stamp series. The two Montana rivers are among a dozen marking 50 years since the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968.

Travelers who maneuver the twisting turns of a mountain road connecting the Bitterroot to the Flint Creek Valley near Philipsburg will marvel at scenic vistas. Much of Highway 38 isn't paved. But ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that protects Montana's East Rosebud Creek as a wild and scenic river. The designation for the Stillwater River tributary that ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — The scenic Beartooth Highway, portions of which were closed in May after a series of mudslides, will reopen Friday, eight days ahead of the Oct. 15 goal.Officials tentatively ...

But here in Montana, free-flowing rivers are still our legacy and a source of pride. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act ensures our rivers remain free-flowing, clean and remarkable.

To sample a slice of this paradise, follow the 49-mile Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway (Forest Service Highway 73) from Highway 43 at Wise River south to Highway 278.