Visitors can hike and bike beyond the gate closure on weekends as far as the posted pedestrian closure; the park’s road crew is still clearing snow in the high country less than a mile from Logan Pass

It was the first such violent encounter of 2025 just weeks into the busy season

The paper's researchers focused on deaths linked to exposure to fine particulate matter, or PM2.5 — the main concern from wildfire smoke

Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, a Republican and former Interior secretary, said before the vote that he was drawing a “red line” on public land sales

It isn't truly spring until you see your first cinnamon teal

With the nonprofit’s $1.5 million Big Creek restoration campaign complete, the community is invited to celebrate May 16 at the historic site along the North Fork Flathead River

There are echoes of ancient bifurcation all around us

The Flathead National Forest reauthorized five existing special use permits on the non-wilderness sections of a river system that forms a boundary with Glacier National Park

With a below-average snowpack blanketing northwest Montana’s high country, plow crews have made fast progress since they started clearing the Going-to-the-Sun Road at the beginning of April

The weekend events include a history walk showcasing the Whitefish Trail’s legacy, a stargazing party and an orienteering event. The hit-the-trail fundraising challenge starts May 1.

Part of what makes Montana the greatest state in the Union is its vast reach

Flathead National Forest Supervisor Anthony Botello said the May 14 deadline would afford the public another week to review new information about the historic lodge’s pending sale and a special use authorization to allow its continued operation on public land

After a high-profile expansion plan for the Swan Valley resort faltered in 2022, a purchase agreement with new investors calls for operating the lodge in its existing footprint. Forest officials are accepting comment through May 7.

By logging 10,347,920 vertical feet at Whitefish Mountain Resort last winter — more than any other season-pass holder in Big Mountain’s history — a 53-year-old retired teacher named Michael Donnay has set what many consider an unbreakable record.

The anti-public-access movement won’t go away quietly