The Sweet Grass Hills Backcountry Drive in Central Montana
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..
Spring in the Sweet Grass Hills
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, […]
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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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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. Near Shelby MT Big Sky Country, See The Sun, Snow
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.
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..
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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.
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Bureau of Land Management, Montana. 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.
Sweetgrass Hills with blooming prickly pear cactus. North of Chester
Access the Sweet Grass Hills In Montana from the EASTSIDE. Ride north on the gravel road Highway 224 from Joplin, Montana. If the the roads are wet, this route to the east side of the Sweet Grass Hills offers the best driving conditions for a passenger car or two-wheel drive truck. The road is a well traveled two lane gravel road.
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The Sweet Grass Hills. Shelby, Valier, Conrad and Chester all have impressive views of the Sweet Grass Hills, along central Montana's northern border, and the Rocky Mountains to the west. Shelby is located at the crossroads of I-15 and Highway 2, just 89 miles east of Glacier National Park. Site of the Dempsey/Gibbons fight July 4, 1923.
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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
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Elevation Gain: ~ 915 m (3,000 ft) The Sweetgrass Hills are situated in northern Montana, close to the Canadian border. A bit of a local anomoly, the 3 hills rise up from the surrounding prairie landscape like thry were transplanted from somewhere else. They are visible from 50-100 miles depending on the weather.
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Montana's Sweet Grass Hills Mining District includes 5 nearby active claims and 4 nearby mines—1 occurrence, 1 prospect, and 2 producers.
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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.
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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.
wildflowers on the prairie below gold butte in the sweet grass hills
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.
