My Montana To Do List

People call them all sorts of things, life list, bucket list, to do list.  I have lived lots of places and each place I have spent lots of time exploring and learning to appreciate each of the places.   I realized after 10 years in Montana, I am not making time to see and do all the things I need to do while living in Montana.   Those things in your back yard you need to do, but never make the time to do.  Well I am putting them on a list to see if it makes me get a few more done.   I am including a few I have already done as well, because if you are new to the state or planning a visit, I want you to know they are worth the trip.

1. Visit Yellowstone in the fall . -2007
2. Visit Yellowstone in the winter
3. Visit Yellowstone in the spring
4. Visit Glacier via Red Bus – 2005
5. Visit Iceberg Lake in Glacier National Park
6. Spend a night at Sperry Chalet
7. Spend a night at Granite Chalet
8. Travel the Beartooth Highway
9. Travel the Skalkaho pass -2012
10. See the Virginia City Players – 2012
11. Ride in a Red Jammer -2005
12. See the famous Beaverhead Rock 2015
13. Take the state capital tour
14. Spend a night in a Forest Service Lookout
15. Go to the top of Mt. Fleecer.
16. Visit Red Rocks National Wildlife Refuge -2012
17. Freezeout Lake in the winter when the birds are there
18. CM Russel Museum
19. Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center
20. Little Bighorn Battlefield 2014
21. Pompey’s Pillar National Monument
22. Big Hole National  Battlefield 2004
23. Take Historic Walking Tour in Butte – 2005
24. Hike 10 miles of the Continental Divide.
25. Spend a night in Gordon Reese Cabin – 2010
26. Visit Montana State Parks:
    1. Visit Buffalo Jump State Park
    2. Visit Bannack State Park 2004
    3. Visit Makoshika State Park
    4. Lost Creek State Park 2013
    5. Granite Ghost Town 2006
    6. Lewis & Clark Caverns -2003
27. Visit Hot Springs:
    1. Lolo Hot Springs – spend a night and x-country ski
    2. Elkhorn Hot Springs 2014
    3. Take a dip in Chico Hot Springs.
    4. Take a dip in White Sulphur Springs 2015
    5. Fairmont Hot Springs 2003
28. Holter Museum  2013
29. Visit Ghost Towns:
    1. Coolidge 2003
    2. Southern Cross 2006
30. Museum of the Rockies 2015
    
31. Visit Ringing Rocks
32. Participate in an Audubon bird count in the winter
33. Tour the Clark Mansion in Butte
34. Gates of the Mountains
35. State Prison Museum 2003
36. Float the Bitterroot River – 2012
37. See Grizzly Bear in the Wild – 2012
38. See Wolf in the wild 2008
39. Miles City Bucking Horse Sale
40. Deer Lodge Draft Horse Expo
41. Drive over the Fort Peck Dam 2013
42. Take a boat tour  in Glacier National Park 2012
43. Visit Gran-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site 2009
44. Visit the Daily Mansion and arboretum in Hamilton
45. Drive Highway 2 from edge to edge. 
46. Attend a Red Ants Pants Music Festival.
47. Tour the Historical Society in Helena
48. Tour the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, preferably near my wedding anniversary
49. Hike in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area
50. Hike in the Anaconda Pintler Wilderness Area
51. Visit the Ross Creek Giant Cedars Grove, near Troy
52. Red Rocks National Wildlife Refuge 2013
53. Visit the Bair Museum in Martindale 2015

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