No offense to Hollywood, but Montana’s beauty tops any movie set ever created. In fact, many of its natural wonders and skylines look like backdrops for feature films. These 17 movie-ready photographs showcase some of the unbelievable scenery of a state that sometimes seems too beautiful to be real.
- Wild Goose Island, Glacier National Park
Loco Steve/Flickr
- Downtown Whitefish in Winter
Brent/Flickr
- Squaw Mountain, East Glacier
Loco Steve/Flickr
- Happily Ever After, Bozeman area
Townsend Collective Doesn’t this have “beautiful love story” written all over it?
- Red Rocks Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Flickr/USFWS Mountain-Prairie
- The University of Montana
Jitze Couperus/Flickr Both of Montana’s major universities are beautiful. But the UM in Missoula could easily be the setting of a major motion picture.
- Sunrise at Lake McDonald
JD Hascup/Flickr
- Montana Landscape
Phil Price/Flickr
- A Flathead Winter Wonderland
Ron Kroetz/Flickr
- East Rosebud Lake
Nataliia Gillespie
- Winter Sunset in Missoula
Micah Sheldon/Flickr
- Downtown Livingston Architecture
Edwin & Kelly Tofslie/Flickr
- Ominous Clouds, Route 212, Southeast Montana
Timothy Vogel/Flickr
- Triple Falls, Glacier National Park
Antony Caldaroni/Flickr
- Moonrise over Stillwater
Fu Xiang/Flickr
- Big Sky, Custer
Don Barrett/Flickr
- Lunch Creek, Glacier
Jeff Krause/Flickr
Montana, you’re always ready for your close-up.
Loco Steve/Flickr
Brent/Flickr
Townsend Collective
Doesn’t this have “beautiful love story” written all over it?
Flickr/USFWS Mountain-Prairie
Jitze Couperus/Flickr
Both of Montana’s major universities are beautiful. But the UM in Missoula could easily be the setting of a major motion picture.
JD Hascup/Flickr
Phil Price/Flickr
Ron Kroetz/Flickr
Nataliia Gillespie
Micah Sheldon/Flickr
Edwin & Kelly Tofslie/Flickr
Timothy Vogel/Flickr
Antony Caldaroni/Flickr
Fu Xiang/Flickr
Don Barrett/Flickr
Jeff Krause/Flickr
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