About: Located just outside Glendive, Makoshika is Montana’s largest state park and features pine and juniper trees on its badland formations. Known for its dinosaur fossils, including a Tyrannosaurus ...

7 Montana State Parks With Glacier National Park Vibes, But Better While Glacier National Park is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, these Montana state parks are similar (and even better!).

Lake Elmo State Park in Billings and Roberts’ Cooney Reservoir State Park rounded out the top five. The state’s 55 parks had more than 3.1 million visitors, which is up more than 17% from 2019.

The push for state parks began in the 1920s as part of a national interest in recreation, David G. Conklin wrote in a 1978 article for Montana Outdoors.

Visitation to Montana State Parks was up slightly last year. In 2023, more than 3.1 million visitors took advantage of the hiking, camping, fishing, swimming and site-seeing destinations available ...

Members of Montana’s congressional delegation have introduced bicameral legislation implementing a presidential order that ...

After the Montana Heritage Center is completed in 2025, 6.5% of the 1% bed-tax increase passed as a part of the bill would go to state parks to provide critical funding for park maintenance ...