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Lewis and Clark National Forest
Montana
Montana is of two minds: big, dramatic mountains and plains that roll on beyond imagination. Lewis and Clark National Forest captures and preserves both worlds in a massive complex of public land that runs from the eastern boundary of Glacier National Park and the spiny Continental Divide eastward through seven separate mountain ranges, then through foothills and out onto the plains south of Great Falls.
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It's the same sequence of natural features that famed explorers Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery confronted in 1805 as they made their way upstream on the Missouri toward the barrier of the Rocky Mountains.
The starkly different terrain, of course, offers very different recreational opportunities, such as alpine skiing, tons of hiking and cross-country skiing, fishing, and the chance to immerse oneself in utter solitude in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex — 380,000 acres of untamed land.
Natural history and American history are closely entwined in this forest, and the very informative interpretive center sheds light on Lewis and Clark's exploratory route up the Missouri, as well as the history of Native Americans and Thomas Jefferson's vision of an expanding America.
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