Section

Places

Parks, peaks and the towns beneath them.

Along Montana's spine, prairie runs straight into limestone reefs and grizzly country.

The head of steamboat navigation on the Missouri, Fort Benton launched the territory's frontier commerce.

Once open range beneath Lone Peak, Big Sky has become one of the Rockies' defining mountain communities.

Montana holds the original entrance to Yellowstone, where the Roosevelt Arch still frames the road south.

A gulch strike built the capital city, whose skyline still mixes cathedral spires and mining-era mansions.

Between the Absaroka and Gallatin ranges, a broad river valley keeps its ranching soul.