Montana State Map
It sounds strange to say it but the very fact that Montana is not a big tourist state is one reason Montana is a great state to explore on vacation, as a tourist. When you go to a tourist state like California or Florida, they are so used to getting tourists and working them through their standard systems to get your money that everybody pretty much has the same experience. But in Montana, the environment is not geared toward tourists. So your experience will be more authentic and unique to what you explore and where you go in this big wild state.
Montana has a cowboy feel about it so if you take on the sprit of the cowboy, you will fit right in. And as a cowboy or your own vacation, you can get a car and some maps of the state and enjoy some of the most spectacular scenery and wide open spaces in the country. Your map collection should include all of the information you need to stay in modern facilities in well developed communities like Billings. But you should stock up on maps of the state so you know where to go to fish, to camp or just to see nature in a setting that is unspoiled by the advances of civilization.
Montana is on the borders of one of the great national parks of the country which is, of course, Yellowstone National Park. So by using Montana as your base of operations, you can plan excursions into Yellowstone to enjoy all the fun and natural beauty that one of the finest national parks in the world has to offer. You can send the kids off on a float trip while you take in a geyser or just find one of the hundreds of scenic views. But be sure you have a reliable map of the park as well as the surrounding areas so you move quickly to what you want to see with little loss of time. The park is huge and just driving all day isn’t the kind of experience you want.
Montana also has some stunning lakes where you can get a cabin and get away from it all for a day or a week at a time. For camping, fishing, photographing nature or just to experience raw nature there is nothing like passing one or two nights on the shores of Lake McDonald, St. Mary Lake, Two Medicine Lake, Kintla Lake or Bowman Lake. This kind of retreat may turn into your most restful vacation ever. Small wonder that Montana is one of the hidden treasures that those who are in the know come back to again and again and again.