7 days / 1988 miles / 40 hours 38 minutes
"The Old West of story and song is recalled in the Big Sky State in a variety of ways, as are some of the more astonishing works of Mother Nature." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
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Day 1
10:00 am - 21.4 miles / 24 minutes - 10:25 am
"Some 300 million years in the making, Meriwether Canyon, through which Missouri flows, is spectacular to see." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
2:25 pm - 76.5 miles / an hour 17 minutes - 3:43 pm
"Charles M. 'Charlie' Russell, 'the cowboy artist' who came to Montana from Missouri in 1880 when he was 16, is honored in this authentic Western museum." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
4:43 pm - 39.6 miles / 55 minutes - 5:39 pm
"On the wooded banks of the Missouri River, this historic town was born more than 40 years before Montana become a state." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
6:39 pm - 0.4 miles / a minute - 6:41 pm
Day 2
"Montana's oldest hotel, opened in 1882 at the height of the town'e steamboat-era prosperity and restored to its original splendor in 1999." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
9:00 am - 0.5 miles / 2 minutes - 9:03 am
4. Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument
"Its impressive form was sculpted through the force of thousands of years of glaciers, volcanic activity, and erosion." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
10:03 am - 254.0 miles / 5 hours 35 minutes - 3:39 pm
4:39 pm - 134.8 miles / 2 hours 41 minutes - 7:21 pm
Day 3
9:00 am - 97.1 miles / an hour 59 minutes - 11:00 am
The sandstone of a prehistoric riverbed has been eroded by wind and water into a gallery of surreal formations rising 80 feet above the plain." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
12:00 pm - 236.7 miles / 4 hours 38 minutes - 4:39 pm
17. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
"Few American military engagements are as infamous as the Battle of Little Bighorn." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
5:39 pm - 121.9 miles / an hour 59 minutes - 7:39 pm
Day 4
9:00 am - 1.5 miles / 2 minutes - 9:03 am
16. Custer National Forest, Beartooth Ranger District
"The ecologically diverse Beartooth Mountain forest is a paradise for nature lovers." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
10:03 am - 152.5 miles / 2 hours 18 minutes - 12:22 pm
"This research museum is a federal repository for dinosaur fossils." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
1:22 pm - 94.6 miles / an hour 45 minutes - 3:08 pm
14. Madison Canyon Earthquake Area and Visitor Center
"This unusual site is a monument to a natural disaster that occurred on the night of August 17, 1959." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
4:08 pm - 63.7 miles / an hour 6 minutes - 5:15 pm
Day 5
9:00 am - 0.2 miles / - 9:01 am
"In 1863 the biggest gold strike in Montana's history took place at Alder Gulch." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
10:01 am - 1.8 miles / 3 minutes - 10:05 am
"Along Nevada City's five streets are shops, a Chinese neighborhood, a music hall containing a notable collection of mechanical 'music machines' and a hotel offering both Victorian rooms and restored miners' cabins." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
11:05 am - 0.1 miles / - 11:06 am
Day 6
9:00 am - 80.6 miles / 2 hours 18 minutes - 11:19 am
"On July 28, 1862, gold was found in Grasshopper Creek, and the town of Bannack was born." - Off the Beaten Path by Reader's Digest
12:19 pm - 114.8 miles / 2 hours 16 minutes - 2:36 pm
3:36 pm - 2.6 miles / an hour 10 minutes - 4:47 pm
5:47 pm - 82.5 miles / 2 hours 14 minutes - 8:02 pm
Day 7
9:00 am - 11.9 miles / 18 minutes - 9:19 am
10:19 am - 57.4 miles / an hour 11 minutes - 11:31 am
12:31 pm - 24.8 miles / 41 minutes - 1:13 pm
2:13 pm - 142.1 miles / 2 hours 25 minutes - 4:39 pm
3. Museum of the Plains Indian
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https://www.doi.gov/iacb/museum-plains-indian5:39 pm - 174.5 miles / 3 hours 8 minutes - 8:48 pm