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Billings, Little Big Horn, and the Montana Plains

Billings, Little Big Horn, and the Montana Plains Travel Guide

Space, lots of space is the hallmark of eastern Montana's gently rolling plains. To escape stifling crowds and urban sprawl, you would do well in the wide-open plains of Big Sky Country. The state as a whole averages six people per square mi, but some of its prairies measure in reverse: one person per six square mi. Although largely devoid of the epic snow-covered peaks of the towering Rockies, the eastern two-thirds of Montana have an expansive beauty that seems to stretch endlessly beyond the horizon, beckoning you to bask in the isolated serenity of one of the least-populated places in the country—in a land of almost too much sky. More »

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When to Go

Places to Explore

Big Snowy Mountains
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
Billings
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
Fort Benton
Fort Peck
Great Falls
Hardin
Havre
Lewistown
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Makoshika State Park
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Miles City

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