Skiers bask in sunshine on opening day at Whitefish Mountain Resort

Whitefish Mountain Resort reports its highest settled summit snow-base in over a decade ahead of opening day

Rolling in the spooky season at Dave Olseth Memorial Skatepark in Whitefish

The biology of the Pacific Northwest's most peculiar tree

Fall arrives in Glacier National Park

A sunny summit climb to the highest point in the Great Bear Wilderness

A visual journey through one of Glacier National Park's most well known traverses

A visual journey through Glacier’s northeast quadrant 

Indian cowboy rodeo in photographs

While a vast number of paddling routes exist, here are five select excursions to appeal to a range of paddlers

A visual meditation on Montana’s flowers

A selection of the Beacon's best imagery from the past year

Candy-seekers roam the streets of Kalispell on Halloween

Skydiving aficionados from around the nation gathered last week in a meadow north of Marion for the 56th annual Lost Prairie Boogie

The allure of one of the Western United States' largest freshwater lakes is boundless. Access to its bright, clear waters is less so.