Introduction to Grey Cliff Prairie Dog Town Greycliff Prairie Dog Town State Park lies along the open grasslands of south-central Montana near the small community of Greycliff. The 98-acre park protects a colony of black-tailed prairie dogs and provides visitors with an opportunity to observe these highly social animals within their natural prairie habitat. Black-tailed […]
Butte Berkeley Pit The Berkeley Pit cuts into the eastern edge of Butte, Montana, as one of the most dramatic remnants of the city’s extraordinary copper-mining era. Opened by the Anaconda Company in 1955, the enormous open-pit mine represented a fundamental shift from the underground workings that had honeycombed Butte Hill for generations. By the […]
Philipsburg, MT Introduction Philipsburg, Montana, preserves one of the state’s most engaging historic commercial districts, a remarkably intact reminder of the mining economy that brought permanent settlement to this part of the Flint Creek Valley. Founded during the silver boom of the 1860s and named for mining engineer Philip Deidesheimer, the town developed as the […]
Glacier NP – Many Glacier Road Introduction Many Glacier Road is more than an approach to one of Glacier National Park’s most celebrated valleys—it is a gradual transition from the open country of the Blackfeet Reservation into a landscape enclosed by some of the park’s most dramatic mountains. Beginning near Babb, the road follows the […]
Glacier NP – Many Glacier Lodge Introduction Set along the shore of Swiftcurrent Lake beneath the dramatic peaks of Glacier National Park’s Many Glacier Valley, Many Glacier Hotel occupies one of the park’s most spectacular settings. The broad, Swiss-inspired building seems almost improbably placed between the water and the mountains, with Grinnell Point rising prominently […]
Glacier NP – Lake McDonald Lodge Lake McDonald Lodge stands along the eastern shore of Lake McDonald, where dense forests descend from Glacier National Park’s mountains to the largest lake in the park. Built during the winter of 1913–1914, the lodge belongs to the formative era when visitors were beginning to venture into Glacier in […]
Glacier NP – Going to the Sun Road Introduction Going-to-the-Sun Road is the defining journey through Glacier National Park, crossing the northern Rocky Mountains from the forests and lakes of the park’s western valleys to the open landscapes of the east side. Nearly 50 miles long, the road follows Lake McDonald and McDonald Creek before […]
Garnet Ghost Town Introduction High in the forested Garnet Range of western Montana, Garnet Ghost Town preserves one of the state’s most complete surviving gold-mining communities. Gold had been discovered in the surrounding mountains by the 1860s, but Garnet itself took shape during the mining revival of the 1890s, when improved equipment made it possible […]