Montana's biggest state park hides out by Glendive in the far eastern badlands — pine-studded rock spires, real dinosaur fossils in the visitor center, and almost none of the western crowds.
Road trips · Montana
Montana road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Montana — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A genuine gold-rush ghost town near Dillon with over 50 weathered buildings you can actually walk through — hotel, jail, schoolhouse, all standing empty off the beaten path in southwest Montana.
Down a rough gravel road between Butte and Whitehall sits a boulder field that chimes like bells when you tap it with a hammer — one of only a handful of spots on Earth that does this.
A serene Buddhist peace garden in tiny Arlee north of Missoula, where a thousand white Buddha statues radiate out in a giant wheel against the Jocko Valley, free and open year-round.
A lake born in seconds during the deadly 1959 earthquake near West Yellowstone, still studded with the bleached ghost trees it drowned, with a little visitor center telling the eerie story.
Montana's best-preserved ghost town sits at the end of a gravel back-country byway east of Missoula, where a dozen-plus weathered cabins, a saloon, and a hotel still stand mostly as miners left them.
Plan the Montana trip
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