The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in Montana
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated June 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 138 roadside attractions in Montana.
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1. Rock Climber and Bears
Kalispell, MT
A dummy rock climber appears to be ascending one downtown building, while a bear and her cub are climbing another.
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2. Plenty Coups: Chief of the Crows
Red Lodge, MT
Bronze equestrian statue by Lyle Johnson, unveiled in July 1999.
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3. Bar with Two-Headed Calf
Columbus, MT
One of the taxidermy trophies that fill the walls of the New Atlas Bar is a rare two-headed calf.
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4. American Computer and Robotics Museum
Bozeman, MT
Displays the computer from the Apollo 11 command module, a watch worn on the moon (Apollo 15), an Apple 1 donated by Steve Wozniak, and a replica of the Greek Antikythera mechanism. Open since 1990. Acquired the Vintage Mac Museum collection in 2019.
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5. Hands Across The Border
Havre, MT
A 1984 iron sculpture by the late Montana artist Lyndon Fayne Pomeroy depicts a U.S. border patrol agent and a Canadian mounted police officer shaking hands.
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6. Bleu Horses
Three Forks, MT
39 blue metal horse sculptures placed on a roadside hillside in 2013 as a permanent artwork. They're designed so that their heads, manes, and tails move in the breeze.
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7. Metal Mech-Moose
Kalispell, MT
Life-size moose made of rusted gears and tools, suggests a cutaway anatomical model. In front of a pizza restaurant.
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8. First T-Rex Skull Monument
Jordan, MT
Jordan claims to be the town where the first Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was found, and has an outdoor bronze T-rex skull as a photo-op.
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9. Historic Dumas Brothel Museum
Butte, MT
This 43-room bawdy house was in business until 1982, qualifying it as America's longest-lived house of prostitution.
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10. Montana Vortex and House of Mystery
Columbia Falls, MT
"Feel the Power of Nature!" This mystery spot, first opened in 1970, mixes New Age mojo with lots of old-fashioned gravity-gone-haywire hoodoo.
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11. Shortest River In The World
Great Falls, MT
All 201 feet of the Roe River can be walked in one minute. A plaque officially designates it the "Shortest River In The World."
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12. Big Medicine: Stuffed White Buffalo
Helena, MT
Big Medicine was a white buffalo born on the Flathead Indian Reservation. While alive, he was the #2 tourist attraction in all of Montana, after Yellowstone. His nickname was "Whitey."
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13. Castle-Shaped Hardware Store
Hamilton, MT
A fake front of medieval battlements and towers on a hardware store appeals to customers who want their home to be a castle.
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14. The Hanging Tree
Roundup, MT
Historic 19th century instrument of justice that really did kill people, and was later moved into town for the edification of visitors. A noose dangles from a high branch, safely out of reach.
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15. Shoe of the World's Tallest Man
Billings, MT
Robert Wadlow's titanic footwear, on display for your amazement. "Large enough to put a large baby inside."
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16. City of Eagles
Libby, MT
A city under siege by Iron and steel eagle sculptures ranging to over 40 feet from wing tip to wing tip.
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17. VW Bug and Camper on a Pole
Columbia Falls, MT
Advertising an RV campground, a vintage VW bug and travel trailer are covered with painted-on-flowers and overexcited cartoon animals.
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18. Blackfeet Warriors Sculpture
Valier, MT
At the entrance to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, two mounted warriors are made of metal materials recycled from the Reservation.
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19. Old Pitt, Elephant Killed by Lightning
Dillon, MT
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20. Sacajawea, Pompey, and Seaman
Twin Bridges, MT
Bronze statue commemorates the 1805 visit by Sacajawea, her baby Pompey, and William Clark's dog, to what would later become Twin Bridges.
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21. Hillside Animal Statues
Glasgow, MT
Large, metal, homemade -- and apparently for sale -- statues of animals, including dinosaurs.
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22. Fly-Fisherman Sculpture
Ennis, MT
Officially titled the "150-Foot Fisherman," this scrap metal sculpture depicts a sportsman hooking a trout 150 feet away. The highway median made such an elongated composition possible.
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23. Big John: Cowboy Muffler Man
Great Falls, MT
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24. Monument to World's Greatest Girls Basketball Team of 1904
Fort Shaw, MT
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25. Thunder Jack: Mountain Man
Wilsall, MT
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