Help keep the Front the way it is now! Increasingly, important habitat along the Rocky Mountain Front is under pressure from the subdivision of private land for residential development. Conservation easements have proven to be a valuable tool for protecting wildlife and a traditional way of life by leaving land in private ownership. However, in order to capitalize on the gains already made, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in need of renewed funding to purchase additional conservation easements in the coming years. Learn how you can help this important program>>
Travel Plan for the Rocky Mountain Front Released!
The Coalition applauded the Forest Service for its plan that protects wildlife while emphasizing traditional uses on the Front. On October 1st, the Lewis and Clark released a final Travel Plan for the lower two-thirds of the Rocky Mountain Front covering roughly 390,000 acres, excluding the Badger-Two Medicine area. The Plan will guide all travel, recreation, and other uses on the Front for the next two decades, specifying routes for hikers and horseback riders, snowmobiles and off-road vehicles (ORVs) ...more>

On the Front > Things to Do

Wilderness Walks: Every summer the Montana Wilderness Association leads dozens of hikes along the Rocky Mountain Front.

Old Trail Museum
823 N. Main, Choteau
406-466-5332
The museum's summer hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Museum of the Plains Indian
Browning
406-338-2230

Blackfeet Historic Site Tour
Browning
406-338-7406

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch
The Boone and Crockett Club, a national conservation organization, operates this 6,000-acre ranch and the Elmer E. Rasmuson Wildlife Conservation Center west Dupuyer. The facility’s mission is research, education and demonstration of wildlife conservation through innovative land management practices. 406-472-3311

Pine Butte Swamp Preserve
This 18,000-acre preserve operated by The Nature Conservancy outside Choteau protects a variety of ecosystems from rocky ridges to prairie to rare spring-fed swamps, known as fens. 406-466-5128

Indian Agency State Park
Friends of the Old Agency on the Teton, a community group, proposes the creation of Indian Agency State Park three miles north of present-day Choteau on the site of the Blackfeet agency from 1869 to 1876.

Bob Marshall Wilderness

Great Bear Wilderness

Scapegoat Wilderness

Teton Pass Ski Area
406-466-3666 or 406-466-2209

Wings and Wild Things
219 N. Main Ave., Choteau
406-466-5990

Mountain Front Taxidermy
501 N. Main Ave., Choteau
406-466-2995