Montana Tours and Adventure Vacations

Wildlife Watching, Backpacking, Hiking, and Biking in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, and Beyond!

When a state names a road “Going-to-the-Sun,” it’s making a mighty big promise to you — one that few states could keep. It’s pledging that you’ll be transported from a terrestrial realm into one more akin to the sky. Montana keeps that promise.

When you travel the Going-to-the-Sun road on your Montana tour, you’ll find the place where prairies and mountains meet, glacier-carved valleys pair with mirrored lakes, and the homes of bighorn sheep, black bears, grizzlies, and mountain goats brush against each other. You’ll climb to an airy height over the Continental Divide and encounter a sun hung so low over the jagged peaks that you’ll swear you’re only minutes away from our closest star. The glow created by that almost-touchable orb covers everything in the colors of wildflowers on the meadows.

But that fifty miles of highway — an engineering marvel — running through Glacier National Park’s wild interior isn’t the only path to superlative scenery when you visit Montana. Hike through a shady forest of spruce and fir before descending into the park’s St. Mary Valley, and you’ll find it hard to believe that the stunning turquoise color of the glacier-fed St. Mary Lake is real. In addition to the large fauna species in the vicinity of the Going-to-the-Sun road, deer, eagles, elk, marmots, moose, pikas, ptarmigan, and wolves only start the list of species you’re likely to spot.

For great white-water thrills, raft down the Middle Fork of the Flathead River as it punches its way through the mountains. Some of the best native trout fishing in Montana is found here. Or choose a Montana tour where you can bike the state’s mountain landscapes, and you’ll discover sparkling waterfalls, expansive virgin forests, sculpted valleys, and towering peaks glazed with ice.

They call Montana “Big Sky” country for a reason. You need a large sky, if you’re building a road to the sun. While the highway might not actually take you to a star, your Montana trip still delivers on the name’s implicit guarantee: You will want it to keep going.

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