Montana's Loneliest Hi-Line Day Drive

Montana's Loneliest Hi-Line day drive is a 260-mile route from Glasgow to Shelby, Montana. The area shoulders the Milk River just south of the Canadian border.

There are great, sweeping prairies for the entire duration of this road trip. You might think the horizon never ended if it wasn't for the mountains to the west growing closer. Baldy Mountain's distant peaks to the south and Mount Brown's to the northwest grow closer with every small town you drive through.

It also offers fantastic opportunities to venture off the path for some sightseeing and exploration.

Some great excursion trails are the Beaver Creek Park Birding Trail and the Bear Paw Nature Trail.

The drive features the Fort Belknap Reservation, Sands Waterfowl Production Area, Dodson Dam Unit Wildlife Management Area, Beaver Creek Park, Fort Peck Lake, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Bear Paw Battlefield, Wahkpa Chu'gn buffalo jump, and Sleeping Buffalo Rock and Hot Springs.

You can take the drive in its entirety over about five hours, or you can extend it for a couple of days for a weekend full of adventure!

Some camping opportunities in the area are the Nelson State Recreation Area and Campground and the Lake Shel-Oole Campground.

You can include Big Sky Backcountry Byway by leaving I-94 at Terry and continuing north to Wolf Point.

Use caution when driving, wear your seatbelt, and don't exceed the speed limit.