The Monte Dolack poster for the 2012 Western Montana Fair began in the 1970s as a painting by his wife, Mary Beth Percival. “A whimsical painting of a young woman who’d picked a four-leaf ...

The official film poster has been released for “Mission Mt. Mangart,” a documentary about the 10th Mountain Division produced by the local Chris Anthony Youth Project nonprofit. “There have been ...

Fifty years ago, 73,877 acres of the Mission Mountains area were designated as wilderness, defined as, “an area of ...

Abruptly rising above town, the Mission Mountains soar upwards nearly 7,000 feet in less than 10 miles from the valley floor, one the greatest reliefs in Montana.

The first organized expedition into the mountains was in 1922 and part of the area was set aside as the Mission Mountains Primitive Area in 1931 and then expanded in 1939, according to Wilderness.net.

ST. IGNATIUS — St. Ignatius sits in the southern reaches of the lush Mission Valley and is watched over by the towering Mission Mountains. A humble town with a rich backstory, the establishment ...