Sunday lunch. It is 1:45P.M.. A bottle of fine Chilean red wine has disappeared effortlessly and the remains of a piece of steak and a particularly nutritious salad are …
The Blackfoot backroad starts just east of Missoula, at a site that exemplifies this landscape’s remarkable evolution from pristine to despoiled to pristine again. On the south side of …
THE HIGH POINT ON THE OFF-THE-GRID ROAD BETWEEN YAAK AND LIBBY Soon after, the road widens you’ll arrive at the Red Dog and Libby, which will seem like a …
As with other great tracts of eastern Montana and northern Wyoming, the prospect of coal-bed methane gas drilling is a threat to the site. Though the state owns surface …
Terry Badlands (12 miles) Generally when you think of wilderness you think of towering mountains, clear and cool streams tumbling over boulders, and iconic wildlife. The Terry Badlands will …
It’s difficult to classify a road piercing a busy national park as a backroad or byway, but no book about spectacular drives in Montana is complete without the Going-to-the-Sun …
Red lodge: Plan your drive so that you can dine in Red Lodge more than once, because there are many outstanding choices. The Pollard Hotel ($$, 406-446-0001, B/D) has …
Montana Dept of Transportation DEEP SNOWS MAKE PLOWING THE BEARTOOTH HIGHWAY A LENGTHY CHORE IN MAY If you want some weather certainty, plan your vacation between mid-June and late …