Historic Sites

Anaconda, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park

View the 585-foot brick smelter stack, among the tallest masonry structures in the world

Dillon, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Bannack State Park

Montana's first territorial capital, a gold-rush ghost town with 50-plus buildings

From $4

Butte, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Berkeley Pit Viewing Stand

Look into a mile-long former copper pit filling with acidic, metal-laden water

Great Falls, Great Falls & Central Montana

C.M. Russell Museum

Charles M. Russell's paintings, his 1903 log cabin studio and his home in Great Falls

From $7

Polson, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

CSKT Bison Range

About 350 bison on tribal land, seen from the 19-mile Red Sleep and Prairie drives

From $5

Helena, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Cathedral of St. Helena

Twin 230-foot spires modelled on Vienna's Votivkirche, with Munich stained glass

Free

Kalispell, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Conrad Mansion Museum

Kalispell founder's 1895 Kirtland Cutter mansion, with most original contents intact

From $5

Hamilton, Missoula & the Bitterroot Valley

Daly Mansion

Copper King Marcus Daly's 24,000-square-foot summer house and arboretum in the Bitterroot

From $8

Missoula, Missoula & the Bitterroot Valley

Garnet Ghost Town

1890s gold camp in the Garnet Range, 40 miles from Missoula, with winter-only cabins

From $10

Philipsburg, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Granite Ghost Town State Park

Silver-boom ghost town at 7,000 feet, reached by a steep road above Philipsburg

From $4

Hardin, Billings & Southeast Montana

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

The June 1876 battlefield: Last Stand Hill, the Indian Memorial and a 4.5-mile tour road

From $15

Billings, Billings & Southeast Montana

Moss Mansion Historic House Museum

A 1903 red-stone house in Billings with its original furniture, drapes and carpets

From $3