Bonus post to celebrate completing Montana—meaning ‘mountainous’—, with photos from Glacier, Little Bighorn, Grant-Kohrs, Bighorn Canyon and Big Hole. Lewis & Clark traversed this rough glacially carved country with the help of the Nez Perce. The parking lot of the Fort Union Trading Post is in Montana (and in a different time zone than the fort), as is a relatively small part of Yellowstone.

If you’re visiting Montana, you may want to camp at Bannack, briefly the territorial capital, and now a ghost town. The sheriff and his deputies allegedly conspired with ‘road agents’ (highway robbers) to rob and murder gold miners and travelers, before being discovered and lynched by vigilantes. The truth is murky, but the town is well preserved as a state park. See the jail below.

Here are my visits to my favorites and to all parks in the Rocky Mountain region.