Historic Sites

Virginia City, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Nevada City

Open-air museum of about 100 gold-rush buildings, plus a hall of mechanical music machines

From $8

Miles City, Billings & Southeast Montana

Range Riders Museum

13 buildings of frontier, ranch and Fort Keogh history, open mid-April to mid-October

From $15

Gardiner, Yellowstone Gateways & the Beartooths

Roosevelt Arch

52-foot basalt gateway at Yellowstone's North Entrance; Roosevelt laid the cornerstone

Free

Livingston, Yellowstone Gateways & the Beartooths

Yellowstone Gateway Museum

Park County history in a 1906 schoolhouse, from Ice Age hunters to the Northern Pacific

From $2

Butte, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Copper King Mansion

W. A. Clark's 34-room 1888 house, still largely in its original condition

From $10

Missoula, Missoula & the Bitterroot Valley

Historical Museum at Fort Missoula

1877 army post with a WWII internment camp story and 20-plus historic buildings

From $3

Billings, Billings & Southeast Montana

Pictograph Cave State Park

Three sandstone caves on the edge of Billings with rock paintings over 2,000 years old

From $4

Butte, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Granite Mountain Memorial Overlook

Hilltop memorial to the 168 men killed in the 1917 Speculator Mine fire

Helena, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Last Chance Gulch

Helena's main street follows the 1864 gold gulch that started the city

Free

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

West Glacier, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Going-to-the-Sun Road

The 50-mile 1930s road that crosses Glacier's Continental Divide at Logan Pass

From $25

Billings, Billings & Southeast Montana

Pompeys Pillar National Monument

Sandstone butte on the Yellowstone carrying William Clark's 1806 signature

From $7