Most visitors to Montana neglect the eastern plains in their rush to get to the increasingly crowded forests and peaks farther west, but the grassy prairies that roll ever onward into the Dakotas and Canada should not be overlooked simply because they lack the majesty of a mountain range. Stop on the plains for their isolation, their serenity, and their sky. Unbroken by man-made objects (or even natural ones), the heavens don't just stretch upward—they stretch outward. At night the effect becomes even more intense, as millions of stars, undisguised by the lights of civilization, beam down from every direction onto an otherwise pitch-black landscape. More »
