Wildlife

Badlands Loop Scenic Byway

Location

SD

This approximately 30-mile drive on SD 240 cuts through the middle of breathtaking formations of Badlands National Park.

As the byway follows the natural contours of the Badlands escarpment, it also weaves in and out of the native grasslands full of hundreds of species of plants and animals. Scenic overlooks, with names like Seabed Jungle, Pinnacles and Prairie Wind, offer outstanding photo opportunities.

Badlands National Park

Location

Badlands National Park SD

Millions of years of wind, water and erosion have created the chiseled spires, deep canyons and jagged buttes of Badlands National Park. 

Bear Country USA

Location

Bear Country USA
13820 S Hwy 16
57702 Rapid City, SD

Bear Country USA, located 8 miles from Rapid City, features the world's largest collection of privately owned black bears. Take a leisurely 3 mile drive through this spectacular wildlife park nestled on 200 acres of Black Hills beauty where you'll see black bears, grizzly bears and over 20 other species of North American animals like buffalo, wolves and elk all from the comfort of your vehicle. After your drive through tour, walk around Babyland where baby bears frolic in the outdoors. You'll need 1.5 hours for your visit to Bear Country USA.
Tour length: 1 1/2 hours

Big Hole National Battlefield

Location

Big Hold National Battlefield MT

Big Hole National Battlefield is a memorial to the people who fought and died here on August 9 and 10, 1877. About 750 non-treaty Nez Perce were fleeing from US Army troops charged with enforcing the US government's demands that all Nez Perce move to a reservation a fraction the size of their traditional homeland. In doing so, the Army was enforcing a national policy of placing all American Indians on reservations to make way for States.

Big Sheep Creek Back Country Byway

Location

MT

The Big Sheep Creek Back Country Byway is a scenic drive through the backcountry of southwestern Montana. The 50 mile two-lane gravel road with a short stretch of one-lane dirt surface can be safely driven from May through early October. Once past the canyons of the Tendoy Mountains, the traveler may pass only two or three cars along the entire route. Passing beneath the high rock cliffs of Big Sheep Canyon, one can look down into clear, deep pools of spring-fed Big Sheep Creek. Perhaps nowhere else in America can one see so many trout without leaving the car.

Big Sky Back Country Byway

Location

MT

Tired of the fast pace of the Interstate System? In eastern Montana you can try the new Big Sky Byway travel route, which links the two major rivers in the state, the Yellowstone and the Missouri. This route follows a section of the historic Regina-Yellowstone (R-Y) Trail, which tourists from Canada used to reach Yellowstone National Park. The north-south orientation of the trail will give you a glimpse of dry land farming, rolling prairie grassland, scenic scoria buttes, and badlands terrain.

Big Sky Resort

Location

Big Sky Resort
1 Lone Mountain Trail
59716 Big Sky, MT

The biggest skiing in America is right here in southwest Montana! With the Big Sky Resort-Moonlight Basin interconnect, skiers and riders can access more than 5,500 uncrowded acres and 27 lifts, all on one lift ticket. Add slopeside lodging, lots of evening and family activities, and Yellowstone Park next door and you'll never want to leave, Big Sky Montana. Live Big.

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

Location

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area MT

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation. This dam, named after the famous Crow chairman Robert Yellowtail, harnessed the waters of the Bighorn River and turned this variable stream into a magnificent lake. Bighorn Lake extends approximately 60 miles through Wyoming and Montana, 55 miles of which are held within spectacular Bighorn Canyon.

Bighorn Scenic Byway

Location

WY

Byway Basics:
A 58-mile paved highway over the crest of the Big Horn Mountains, the byway winds past thick forest, lush meadows, waterfalls, and deep canyons. Stretching from the Powder River Basin to the Big Horn Basin, the Big Horn Byway follows US 14 from the west outside Greybull. 

Black Hills Scenic Byway

Location

WY

As Wyoming’s gateway to the Black Hills, the entire area is rich with historic and cultural sites along with scenic natural vistas, archeological interests, and recreational outlets. The proposed 78 mile Wyoming Black Hills Scenic Byway embodies each of the six nominating categories: history, culture, scenic, natural, recreation, and archeology.

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