Photos: Summer in Big Sky Country
— By Robert Firpo-Cappiello
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Melting snow provides a beautiful waterfall on the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park.
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The gorgeous but challenging Highline trail in Glacier National Park.
Lake McDonald, the largest lake in Glacier National Park.
The visitor center at Logan Pass, at the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, features one of the highest book stores in the world.
Jim Parkin
Flathead Lake, in western Montana, is the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.
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Aerial view of Bigfork Mont., a hotspot for great food, western-art galleries, and jewelry.
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"Big Mike," a bronze cast of the Wankel T. rex at the entrance to the Museum of the Rockies, in Bozeman, Mont., is one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever discovered and was excavated by field crews from the museum..
Courtesy Museum of the Rockies
Costumed interpreter baking cookies in the wood-fired stove at the Tinsley House at Museum of the Rockies' Living History Farm.
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Antlers adorn a fence just outside Bigfork, Mont.
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The Montana State Capitol Building in Helena.
Peaks near Logan Pass in Glacier National Park.
Missoula, Mont., is a vibrant university town in western Montana.
Montana's Beartooth Highway.
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Cooke City, Mont., east of Bozeman, was one of Budget Travel's Coolest Small Towns of 2012!
Janie Osborne
Montana offers some of the best fly fishing in the U.S. This spot is near Cooke City.
Janie Osborne
Cooke City, Mont., is the site of a unique museum.
Janie Osborne
If you make it up to Logan Pass, in Glacier National Park, you are almost guaranteed to see mountain goats.
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Catching a mountain range reflected perfectly in a still lake is one of the heart-stopping moments that brings visitors to Montana.
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Flathead Lake draws visitors and year-round residents for its quiet bays and surrounding pine forests.
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Western Montana offers views of more than just the Big Sky—with the Rocky Mountains, pristine mountain lakes, wildlife, and some classic 19th-century architecture, too!
