Montana

So many people have recommended Glacier National Park but its just too far away from our route to visit so we're going to have to organise another trip!

Instead, we are going to be visiting Little Bighorn Battlefield. The history behind this National Monument, I remember learning as part of my History GCSE.

Another place I am looking forward to is the Ringing Rocks of Montana. On the face of it, this looks like a large pile of random boulders but when they are tapped lightly with a hammer, they ring. It is believed that the ringing is a combination of the composition of the rock and the way the joining patterns have developed as the rocks have eroded away, if a boulder is removed from the pile, it doesn't ring.

State:	Montana
Towns of Interest: (FB) = Firebreak	N/A
National Parks:	Glacier National Park - not visiting
State Parks of Interest:	N/A
Places of Interest: (N) = Night Stay	Missoula (Pretty town - old town district has some lovely old structures, is home to the largest Montana brewery. Greenough Park is a pretty hie through the conifers and cottonwoods lining the bank of Rattlesnake Creek) Garnet (Maintained ghost town which gives a history to Montana) Driving Route 1 (Skirts the lovely Georgetown Lake and enters Flint Creek Valley, where the surrounding mountains harbor garnets, sapphies and fossils. The drive passes through old mining towns, many of which are now ghost towns and ranches) Georgetown Lake (N) Ringing Rocks of Montana (The rocks in this unique geologic area chime when tapped lightly with a hammer) Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (This area memorializes the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry and the Sioux and Cheyenne in one of the Indian's last armed efforts to preserve their way of life) Hardin (N) (Little town with a KOA to stop in)
Routes of Interest:	Driving Route 1 (Drummond to Anaconda)
Useful Links:	http://www.visitmt.com/things-to-do.html