Montana Day Tripping: Missouri Headwaters State Park

As the landscape around us slowly transforms, it's easy to lose sight of the importance of nature, of undeveloped places in our lives, places that serve as refuges for wildlife while allowing us to stop and consider the treasures that make this state what it is. Missouri Headwaters State Park is one of these places, one where each trail tells a story about the land and the people who inhabited it.

This National Historic Landmark, where the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin Rivers flow together to form the Missouri, is a place of confluence, where not only rivers, but people, nature and places c...