It is widely known that Western Montana is home to the mountains, while Eastern Montana is given to the Northern Great Plains. Yet, in a strange twist of fate, the highest point in Montana is found in the east, and the lowest in the far northwest corner of the state. Granite Peak, towering at 12,799 feet in the Beartooth Range, is Montana’s highest point, its jagged silhouette a testament to the tectonic forces that forged the region millions of years ago. Meanwhile, the Kootenai River, flowing out of the state near the Canadian border in the mountainous west, drops to an elevation of just 1,820 feet.
Between these two elevation markers
lies a state that rarely settles for a single elevation for very long. There is
always a fold, a drop-off, or a mountain confronting you as you travel from
point to point. And, if that were not enough to garner your attention, we also
have that “big sky” thing.
—Mitchell Hegman
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