Historic Sites

Butte, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Mai Wah Museum

Two brick buildings from Butte's Chinatown, with a mercantile still stocked with goods

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

Helena, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Montana State Capitol

Copper-domed 1902 statehouse with a 25-foot Charles M. Russell mural in the House chamber

Free

Great Falls, Great Falls & Central Montana

Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center

Forest Service museum of the 1805 portage, closed for renovation until 1 April 2027

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

Butte, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

World Museum of Mining

Underground tours and a rebuilt mining-camp street at Butte's Orphan Girl mine

Dillon, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Clark Canyon Reservoir and Camp Fortunate

Trout reservoir over the site where Sacagawea met her brother in August 1805

Free

West Yellowstone, Yellowstone Gateways & the Beartooths

Earthquake Lake Visitor Center

Overlook on the 1959 slide that killed 28 and dammed the Madison River into a lake

Free

Great Falls, Great Falls & Central Montana

First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park

A mile-long sandstone cliff where bison were driven to their deaths for a thousand years

From $4

Hamilton, Missoula & the Bitterroot Valley

Historic St. Mary's Mission

Stevensville's 1841 Jesuit mission, where Montana's first permanent settlement began

From $10

Missoula, Missoula & the Bitterroot Valley

Missoula Smokejumper Visitor Center

Free tours of the working Forest Service base where smokejumpers pack and fly

Free

Helena, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Original Governor's Mansion

The 1888 Queen Anne house where nine Montana governors lived from 1913 to 1959

Free