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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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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. Near Shelby MT Big Sky Country, See The Sun, Snow
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.
Blog from the Kootenays RV trip to the Sweetgrass Hills Day 2
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.
Winter in Sweet Grass Hills, Montana [OC] [4200 x 2800] r/EarthPorn
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.
wildflowers on the prairie below gold butte in the sweet grass hills
Montana's Sweet Grass Hills Mining District includes 5 nearby active claims and 4 nearby mines—1 occurrence, 1 prospect, and 2 producers.
Sweetgrass Hills with blooming prickly pear cactus. North of Chester
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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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.
Sweetgrass Hills of northern Montana viewed across the Mil… Flickr
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.
Sweet Grass Hills A view of the Sweet Grass Hills in Monta… Flickr
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.
Sweet Grass Hills Devils Chimney And Mount Royal
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.
View of the Sweetgrass Hills, from the Milk River in Canada. ac
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.
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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.
Spring in the Sweet Grass Hills
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).
backroad below east butte in the sweetgrass hills near whitlash Stock
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).
The Sweet Grass Hills Backcountry Drive in Central Montana
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
