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National Geographic – Best Trips 2013 – Missouri River Breaks in Montana

Big sky, bigger adventures in Montana

Today Lewis and Clark wouldn’t recognize most of their route from St. Louis to the Pacific. But there’s one place they’d know in a heartbeat: a 149-mile stretch of the Missouri River in north-central Montana. It still contains the "scenes of visionary enchantment" the explorers found in 1805, where rugged sandstone canyons meet the river, then climb to a seemingly limitless prairie full of life. Bighorn sheep and elk sip from the river while antelope scamper. Eagles scream, coyotes sing, and prairie dogs do that funky dance.

Even bison are back, thanks to the American Prairie Reserve http://www.americanprairie.org/, a group stitching together three million acres of public and private land for wildlife.

Full Story: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-trips-2013/#/upper-missouri-river-breaks-national-monument_62528_600x450.jpg

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