Montana towns have stories and legends and a few inside jokes. But don’t forget the nicknames. Some of them make sense.

Montana's rugged beauty has long been a magnet for nature lovers, with attractions like Glacier National Park, one of the ...

In the Rocky Mountain West, mountains are-well, just about everywhere. But sitting at the foot of and hiding in the valleys between the soaring peaks of America’s craggy spine are also numerous small ...

The American West is full of towns that serve as gateways into the natural world. Launching points, if you will, that sit on the edge of the wilderness and offer the infamous three Bs — a beer, a ...

Town founder Sever T. Simonson (who thought the name meant “our people”) chose the name Absaroka; an early settler with bad handwriting scrawled out an “a” at the end of the town’s name that someone, ...

They’re the first in any list, Montana communities that start with the letter A, and while our featured town, Anaconda, is the biggest and probably most recognizable of the bunch, there are plenty of ...