West Butte of Sweet Grass Hills Montana AllTrails Montana road
West Butte is the highest point in Montana's Sweet Grass Hills, a small island range of volcanic peaks located on the Canadian border about 100 miles east of Glacier National Park. Although not large mountains by Montana standards, the Sweet Grass Hills are very prominent landmarks due to their relatively high elevations above the prairie..
Sweetgrass Hills with blooming prickly pear cactus. North of Chester
The Sweet Grass Hills have been a prominent landmark of northern Montana since the buffalo days. They rise nearly 3000 feet above the surrounding prairie and are visible for miles. The "Hills" were created by an igneous intrusion through older sedimentary rocks during the Eocene, about 50 million years ago..
Sweetgrass Hills of northern Montana viewed across the Mil… Flickr
Access the Sweet Grass Hills In Montana from the EASTSIDE. Ride north on the gravel road Highway 224 from Joplin, Montana. If the the roads are wet, this route to the east side of the Sweet Grass Hills offers the best driving conditions for a passenger car or two-wheel drive truck. The road is a well traveled two lane gravel road.
Sweetgrass Hills, Montana from Writing on Stone Provincial… Flickr
Welcome to the Sweet Grass Hills in Montana : Information and Photographs. Europe has man-made "Roman Roads" that date back 1,800 years. Montana has Buffalo/Bison roads that are just as old, near Gold Butte. The 2,000 pound animals would climb from the hot prairie to the shoulders of Gold Butte to escape the heat and insects. Centuries of.
Sweetgrass Hills Montana USA Jason Woodhead Flickr
The Sweet Grass Hills are a small chain of low volcanic peaks located just south of the U.S.-Canadian border in northcentral Montana. An island range, the Sweet Grass Hills rise prominently above the Great Plains one hundred miles east of the Rocky Mountain Front and Glacier National Park. The range comprises three main landmasses: West Butte.
Blog from the Kootenays RV trip to the Sweetgrass Hills Day 2
Sweetgrass Hills Agreement of 1888 re-duced the large northern Indian reserve to three smaller reservations: the Blackfeet, Fort Belknap, and Fort Peck Reservations. In 1895 the Blackfeet sold another strip of land that prospectors hoped would con-tain gold. When no gold was found there, most of this land became Glacier National Park.
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Sweetgrass Hills with you. We, the people of Montana grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life, equality of opportunity and to secure the blessings of liberty for this and future generations do ordain and establish this.
Sweet Grass Hills A view of the Sweet Grass Hills in Monta… Flickr
Sweetgrass is a port of entry very near the Canadian border. The town name comes from the abundance of "sweet" grass that grows around here and has a sweet, long-lasting aroma. The town gave its name to the Sweetgrass Arch, a series of oil fields that extends south to Sunburst.
Sweet Grass Hills, Montana Places to go, Montana, Big sky country
Expected weather for West Butte of Sweet Grass Hills for the next 5 days is: Mon, December 11 - 28 degrees/am clouds/pm sunTue, December 12 - 36 degrees/sunnyWed, December 13 - 41 degrees/mostly sunnyThu, December 14 - 36 degrees/cloudyFri, December 15 - 37 degrees/mostly sunny
wildflowers on the prairie below gold butte in the sweet grass hills
The Sweet Grass Hills (Blackfoot: kátoyissiksi, Cheyenne: vé'ho'ôhtsévóse, Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille: ččaɫalqn, "three peaks") are a small group of low mountains rising more than 3,000 feet (910 m) above the surrounding plains southwest of Whitlash, Montana, in Liberty and Toole County, Montana. The tallest point in the hills is West Butte at 6,983 feet (2,128 m).
Sweetgrass Hills. Near Shelby MT Big Sky Country, See The Sun, Snow
Napi, the Old Man, created the Earth, the Oceans, and the Backbone of the World; the Rocky Mountains. According to Blackfoot tradition, Napi then took the leftover earth and rock from his pockets and created the Sweetgrass Hills. Located across North Central Montana, in Toole and Liberty counties, these mountain islands hold secrets only the gods know.
Spring in the Sweet Grass Hills
Montana's Sweet Grass Hills Mining District includes 5 nearby active claims and 4 nearby mines—1 occurrence, 1 prospect, and 2 producers.
Photograph Sweetgrass Hills, MT by Tim Mine on 500px
The Sweet Grass Hills. Shelby, Valier, Conrad and Chester all have impressive views of the Sweet Grass Hills, along central Montana's northern border, and the Rocky Mountains to the west. Shelby is located at the crossroads of I-15 and Highway 2, just 89 miles east of Glacier National Park. Site of the Dempsey/Gibbons fight July 4, 1923.
View of the Sweetgrass Hills, from the Milk River in Canada. ac
Article and Photos by J.B. Chandler Napi, the Old Man, created the Earth, the oceans, and the backbone of the world - the Rocky Mountains. According to Blackfoot tradition, Napi then took the leftover earth and rock from his pockets and created the Sweetgrass Hills. Located across north central Montana, in Toole and Liberty Counties, […]
Winter in Sweet Grass Hills, Montana [OC] [4200 x 2800] r/EarthPorn
The Sweetgrass Hills break up the land formation to the east. Several deep ravines and rim rock ledges, forming natural traffic lanes, break up the remainder of the area. The majority of the patrol activity is devoted to these key roads and lanes. From a strategic standpoint the Sweetgrass, MT station is ideally located.
The Sweet Grass Hills Backcountry Drive in Central Montana
The Sweet Grass Hills Backcountry Drive follows two different state highways, Montana 552 and Montana 409, and travels between the tiny town of Sunburst and the nice, quaint town of Chester. Outside of Sunburst, the road is initially paved but turns to gravel as it approaches the first of the buttes.
