John Grindrod/The Lima News On our final Wyoming morning on a national-parks vacation, Lady Jane and I packed up, ready for another 500-plus-mile driving day to get to West Glacier, Montana ...

Montana — also known as the Treasure State ... lodges (like the Inn on Bigfork Bay or the Flathead Lake Lodge), vacation rentals, and cabins. The closest major airport to Bigfork is Glacier ...

One of the clearest lakes in America is also found right here under the Big Sky, and that would be Lake McDonald. While those ...

Any visitor could see why: Smoke from the Howe Ridge fire, burning on an estimated 2,500 acres near Lake McDonald ... lightning-caused fires in northwest Montana. National Weather Service ...

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of swans, geese, cranes and other waterfowl descend on a Montana lake on their way to the Arctic. A small town festival draws thousands of bird fans. The sky ...