Sweetgrass Hills, Montana from Writing on Stone Provincial… Flickr


Spring in the Sweet Grass Hills

Expected weather for West Butte of Sweet Grass Hills for the next 5 days is: Mon, December 11 - 28 degrees/am clouds/pm sunTue, December 12 - 36 degrees/sunnyWed, December 13 - 41 degrees/mostly sunnyThu, December 14 - 36 degrees/cloudyFri, December 15 - 37 degrees/mostly sunny


Sweet Grass Hills Devils Chimney And Mount Royal

Montana's Sweet Grass Hills Mining District includes 5 nearby active claims and 4 nearby mines—1 occurrence, 1 prospect, and 2 producers.


Sweet Grass Hills A view of the Sweet Grass Hills in Monta… Flickr

The Sweet Grass Hills Backcountry Drive follows two different state highways, Montana 552 and Montana 409, and travels between the tiny town of Sunburst and the nice, quaint town of Chester. Outside of Sunburst, the road is initially paved but turns to gravel as it approaches the first of the buttes.


Gold Butte Sweetgrass Hills, Montana YouTube

Sweetgrass Hills Agreement of 1888 re-duced the large northern Indian reserve to three smaller reservations: the Blackfeet, Fort Belknap, and Fort Peck Reservations. In 1895 the Blackfeet sold another strip of land that prospectors hoped would con-tain gold. When no gold was found there, most of this land became Glacier National Park.


Blog from the Kootenays RV trip to the Sweetgrass Hills Day 2

The Sweet Grass Hills have been a prominent landmark of northern Montana since the buffalo days. They rise nearly 3000 feet above the surrounding prairie and are visible for miles. The "Hills" were created by an igneous intrusion through older sedimentary rocks during the Eocene, about 50 million years ago..


road below west butte in the sweet grass hills near whitlash, montana

Article and Photos by J.B. Chandler Napi, the Old Man, created the Earth, the oceans, and the backbone of the world - the Rocky Mountains. According to Blackfoot tradition, Napi then took the leftover earth and rock from his pockets and created the Sweetgrass Hills. Located across north central Montana, in Toole and Liberty Counties, […]


Sweetgrass Hills with blooming prickly pear cactus. North of Chester

Sweetgrass is a port of entry very near the Canadian border. The town name comes from the abundance of "sweet" grass that grows around here and has a sweet, long-lasting aroma. The town gave its name to the Sweetgrass Arch, a series of oil fields that extends south to Sunburst.


The Sweet Grass Hills Backcountry Drive in Central Montana

The Sweet Grass Hills are a small chain of low volcanic peaks located just south of the U.S.-Canadian border in northcentral Montana. An island range, the Sweet Grass Hills rise prominently above the Great Plains one hundred miles east of the Rocky Mountain Front and Glacier National Park. The range comprises three main landmasses: West Butte.


Winter in Sweet Grass Hills, Montana [OC] [4200 x 2800] r/EarthPorn

The Sweet Grass Hills are located in North Central Montana, north of Highway 2, right near the Canadian border. The Sweet Grass Hills consist of three distinct buttes with scattered grassy hills connecting them. The three buttes are West Butte (elevation of 6983 feet), Gold Butte (elevation of 6512 feet) and East Butte (elevation of 6958 feet).


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Sweetgrass Hills with you. We, the people of Montana grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life, equality of opportunity and to secure the blessings of liberty for this and future generations do ordain and establish this.


Sweetgrass Hills Montana USA Jason Woodhead Flickr

West Butte is the highest point in Montana's Sweet Grass Hills, a small island range of volcanic peaks located on the Canadian border about 100 miles east of Glacier National Park. Although not large mountains by Montana standards, the Sweet Grass Hills are very prominent landmarks due to their relatively high elevations above the prairie..


Sweetgrass Hills, Montana from Writing on Stone Provincial… Flickr

The Sweetgrass Hills break up the land formation to the east. Several deep ravines and rim rock ledges, forming natural traffic lanes, break up the remainder of the area. The majority of the patrol activity is devoted to these key roads and lanes. From a strategic standpoint the Sweetgrass, MT station is ideally located.


Photograph Sweetgrass Hills, MT by Tim Mine on 500px

Welcome to the Sweet Grass Hills in Montana : Information and Photographs. Europe has man-made "Roman Roads" that date back 1,800 years. Montana has Buffalo/Bison roads that are just as old, near Gold Butte. The 2,000 pound animals would climb from the hot prairie to the shoulders of Gold Butte to escape the heat and insects. Centuries of.


wildflowers on the prairie below gold butte in the sweet grass hills

Sweet Grass (also Sweetgrass) is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Toole County, Montana, United States, on the Canada-US border.It is the northern terminus of Interstate 15, an important route connecting western Canada, the western United States, and Mexico.The population was 65 according to the 2020 census.. In 2004, a joint border facility opened at the Sweetgrass.


West Butte of Sweet Grass Hills Montana AllTrails Montana road

The Sweet Grass Hills (Blackfoot: kátoyissiksi, Cheyenne: vé'ho'ôhtsévóse, Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille: ččaɫalqn, "three peaks") are a small group of low mountains rising more than 3,000 feet (910 m) above the surrounding plains southwest of Whitlash, Montana, in Liberty and Toole County, Montana. The tallest point in the hills is West Butte at 6,983 feet (2,128 m).


Sweetgrass Hills of northern Montana viewed across the Mil… Flickr

Napi, the Old Man, created the Earth, the Oceans, and the Backbone of the World; the Rocky Mountains. According to Blackfoot tradition, Napi then took the leftover earth and rock from his pockets and created the Sweetgrass Hills. Located across North Central Montana, in Toole and Liberty counties, these mountain islands hold secrets only the gods know.

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