State Parks

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

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

Whitefish, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Whitefish Lake State Park

Small lakeside campground and boat launch on Whitefish Lake, with trains rolling past

From $4

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

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

Bozeman, Bozeman & Big Sky

Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park

Guided tours through limestone caverns in Montana's first state park, May to September

From $8

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

Polson, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Flathead Lake

About 191 square miles of clear water: the West's largest natural freshwater lake

From $4

Kalispell, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Lone Pine State Park

A ridge-top day-use park on Kalispell's edge with 7.5 miles of trail and valley views

From $4

Anaconda, Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana

Lost Creek State Park

Narrow canyon near Anaconda with 1,200-foot cliffs, bighorn sheep and a 50-foot waterfall

From $4

Bigfork, Glacier National Park & the Flathead Valley

Wild Horse Island State Park

Flathead Lake's largest island: boat-only, with bighorn sheep and five wild horses

From $4