Travel Information for Montana Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Montana attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Montana state park, this is where you will find it.
Visitors to MONTANA are drawn there by the lure of river trips, hiking, fishing, mountain biking, skiing and snowmobiling in its wide open spaces or in its majestic mountains and superb parks, scenic drives like Beartooth Highway in Montana’s Yellowstone and the Going to the Sun Highway in Glacier National Park; they go to rediscover the wild west at Billings and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Eastern Montana, for the gold rush towns and for the stately capitol, Helena, and to shop in Great Falls and Missoula. Culture and history come alive everywhere through Native American powwows and music festivals, reenactments and rodeos. The thirteen stops along the Montana Dinosaur Trail allow visitors to discover its paleontological treasures.
ASHLAND and LAME DEER in the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation,has attractions which include historical buffalo jumps, burial sites of Indian chiefs and Cheyenne Indian Museum.
Together with the Great Bear and Scapegoat wilderness areas, the Bob Marshall Wilderness at BIGFORK forms a contiguous wildlands complex of more than 1.5-million acres.
BILLINGS in Custer Country is Montana’s biggest city with a rich history filled with names such as Lewis & Clark, Custer, Sitting Bull, Calamity Jane and others; the Western Heritage Center provides a social history of the Yellowstone Valley; in 1806 Captain William Clark carved his name on the sandstone Pompeys Pillar butte – the only remaining physical evidence along the trail of the Lewis & Clark Expedition; the remains of a prehistoric culture are preserved at the Pictograph Cave State Park; Yellowstone Art Museum has western and contemporary art exhibits.
The American Computer Museum at BOZEMAN is devoted entirely to the computer while the Emerson Cultural Center is an historic building used for visual and performing arts.; the Museum of the Rockies is a natural history museum and home to the Taylor Planetarium.
BUTTE is steeped in mining history as the 1880s Copper King Mansion and the World Museum of Mining attest.
Bear Paw Battlefield at CHINOOK is the site of the surrender of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians.
The Museum of the Beartooths in COLUMBUS is located in the Red Northern Pacific caboose.
The fascinating history of the "Old West" is in evidence at the CULBERTSON Museum and at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, a prominent fur trading post in the 1800s.
DEER LODGE has the historic Montana Prison; other attractions include Frontier Montana with a Western and saloon memorabilia collection, the Grant Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, headquarters for an 1800s cattle empire, the Montana Law Enforcement Museum and more than 1,000 dolls and toys spanning a century at Yesterday’s Playthings.
DILLON in Bannack State Park, the site of Montana’s first major gold strike in 1862, is now a preserved ghost town; visitors can explore southwestern Montana history at the Beaverhead County Museum.
Near DRUMMOND, Garnet Ghost Town was named for the ruby colored stones found there.
EKALAKA is home to the Carter County Museum with its rare dinosaur skeleton and paleontological exhibits; weathering has given the soft sandstone rock formations at Medicine Rocks State Park a honeycomb look. The Flathead Lake State Park borders Flathead Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the West; the Flathead National Wild and Scenic River is one of the nation’s longest wild and scenic river systems.
FORT BENTON has a colorful frontier history, much of it expressed at the Museum of the Upper Missouri and at the Museum of the Northern Great Plains, Montana’s agricultural museum. There is boating, fishing and wildlife viewing at Fort Peck Dam and Lake; the Charles M. Russell and the UL Bend National Wildlife Refuges encompass a million acres of wildlands surrounding FORT PECK reservoir.
GARDINER provides the only year-round, drive-in entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
GARRYOWEN is home to the historic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Custer Battlefield Museum and Sitting Bull’s campsite where the Battle of the Little Bighorn began.
Fossil remains are preserved at Makoshika State Park, GLENDIVE. where the frontier Gateway Museum features Plains Indians history and culture.
GREAT FALLS is Montana’s second-largest city, and home of cowboy artist Charlie Russell whose original home and log studio are now part of the C.M. Russell Museum Complex; other attractions include the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center on a bluff overlooking Black Eagle Falls, and the Ulm Pishkun State Park which was a prehistoric bison kill site with a mile-long buffalo jump.
Near HARDIN there are plenty of recreational opportunities at the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area with talks on the battle and related themes at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument; the Crow Indian Reservation & Crow Fair is renowned as the tipi capital of he world.
The "Havre Beneath the Streets" tour of HAVRE explores a recreation of history which includes a Chinese laundry, a bordello, opium den and bakery; other attractions include Fort Assinniboine, the largest military fort west of the Mississippi when it was constructed in 1879, and the Wahkpa Chu’gn Archaeology Site was a bison kill site.
An 1864 gold strike touched off a boom era that transformed HELENA into "Queen City of the Rockies" and Montana’s capital city; visitors can learn of Helena’s historic past on a narrated tour on the Last Chance Tour Train or by looking in on the Montana Historical Society & Museum; other attractions include St. Helena Cathedral, modeled after the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, and Kleffner Ranch, a unique ranch property with an octagonal stone house.
KALISPELL is at the heart of the Rocky Mountain wild lands; the Hockaday Museum of Art is housed in the 1903 Carnegie Library building, one of the many historic buildings in Kalispell; the Conrad Mansion was built in 1895 by a Montana pioneer and founder of Kalispell.
LEWISTOWN is the headquarters for the C.M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
Downtown LIVINGSTON is a designated historic district which encompasses 436 buildings.
The Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge at MALTA is a major resting area for migrating waterfowl; for local history and a dinosaur exhibit there’s Phillips County Museum. Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Montana’s Missouri River Country is home to the largest white pelican colony in Montana.
In Montana’s Glacier Country, MISSOULA lies at the head of five scenic valleys and at the junction of three great rivers.; anything there is to know about carousels is found at A Carousel for Missoula, and there is western Montana history to explore at the Historical Museum. About 400 to 500 buffalo roam nearly 19,000 acres of natural grassland on the National Bison Range and there are elk and natural history displays at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Wildlife Visitor Center.
At MONIDA Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is an important nesting area for the rare trumpeter swan.
Located on the Fort Peck Indian reservation, POPLAR is home to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, and offers plenty of Indian culture at the Poplar Museum and Tribal Museum.
Chief Plenty Coup State Park at PRYOR is the home and burial site of the last chief of the Crow tribe; a museum and exhibits interpret Crow culture.
RONAN offers area history at the Garden of the Rockies Museum; nearby is the Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana and the Ninepipes Wildlife Refuge.
SEELEY LAKE is one of a half dozen lakes in the Clearwater Valley known as the "Chain of Lakes" among them Placid Lake and Salmon Lake state parks where is wildlife viewing.
At STEVENSVILLE the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge provides habitat for nesting ospreys and other birds and wildlife.
Upper Missouri National Wild and Scenic River stretches 149 miles downriver from FORT BENTON; highlights include the scenic White Cliffs area, Citadel rock, Hole in the Wall, Lewis and Clark Camp at Slaughter River, abandoned homesteads and abundant wildlife.
VIRGINIA CITY and NEVADA CITY are two authentically preserved and restored mining camps from the 1860s gold rush era.
WEST YELLOWSTONE is Yellowstone Park’s most popular gateway; the Grizzly Discovery Center – A Bear and Wolf Preserve is an educational facility devoted to the preservation of these threatened animals.
WHITEFISH is a resort town well placed for visiting Glacier Park.
Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park at WHITEHALL features highly decorated limestone caverns.
Visitors to WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS can enjoy the mineralized hot springs (The Spa Hot Springs) but the town is also full of western flavor; weathered buildings are all that remain of the 1880s silver mining boom at the nearby Ghost Town of Castle.
Big Hole National Battlefield, WISDOM, is the site of the tragic engagement between the non-treaty bands of the Nez Perce and the 7th U.S. Infantry.
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