Hiking Trails

St. Mary, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Grinnell Glacier Trail

A 5-mile climb from Many Glacier to one of the park's best-known shrinking glaciers

From $35

Bozeman, Bozeman & Big Sky

Hyalite Canyon

Bozeman's mountain canyon: a reservoir, short waterfall walks and world-class ice climbing

Bigfork, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Jewel Basin Hiking Area

Foot-only high country above Bigfork: 27 lakes and 35 miles of trail

Free

St. Mary, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Hidden Lake Overlook Trail

A 1.3-mile boardwalk climb from Logan Pass to a view over Hidden Lake

From $35

Great Falls, Great Falls & Central Montana

Giant Springs State Park

A spring pouring out 156 million gallons a day beside the Missouri, open all year

From $4

West Glacier, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Glacier National Park

A million acres of glacier-carved peaks on the Canadian border, open all year

From $15

St. Mary, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Logan Pass

The Continental Divide at 6,646 feet, with mountain goats and the Highline Trail

From $1

Dillon, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Big Hole National Battlefield

Site of the 1877 dawn attack on a Nez Perce camp, with three walking trails

Free

Hamilton, Missoula & the Bitterroot Valley

Lake Como

Bitterroot reservoir under the mountains, with a 7.9-mile shoreline loop and a beach

From $5

St. Mary, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Many Glacier

Lakes, peaks and a 1915 Swiss-chalet hotel in the valley many call Glacier's best

From $25

Missoula, Missoula & the Bitterroot Valley

Mount Sentinel M Trail

Eleven switchbacks up to the University of Montana's concrete M, 620 feet above town

Free

Billings, Billings & Southeast Montana

Swords Rimrock Park and Black Otter Trail

Sandstone cliff-top park over Billings, with Yellowstone Kelly's grave on the rim

Free