Custer National Forest
Montana
The Custer National Forest is made up of small pockets of timbered buttes and grasslands scattered across three states - Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. It's southwest section is one of the gateways to Yellowstone National Park, and as such is part of the greater Yellowstone area, one of the largest intact temperate ecosystems left on the planet.
View from Beartooth Scenic Byway
Wildlife can be spectacular. The Beartooth Mountains are the crowning scenic glories of this forest, offering some of the best hiking, fishing around - and a scenic byway that is nothing short of awe-inspiring. The area is well known for lake and stream fishing, and also provides habitat for mountain goats, bighorn sheep, moose, elk, white-tail deer, mule deer, mountain grouse, black bear, cougar, and bobcats. Although all these animals and birds occur in the area, there are no large populations of any of them. Occasionally grizzly bear are seen in areas of the wilderness located on the Custer.
The Sioux Ranger District, located in the southeast corner of Montana and the northwest corner of South Dakota, is often, and justly, described as"islands of green in a sea of rolling prairie" - hills or mesas of ponderosa pine rise above rolling grasslands. One of the largest populations of Merlins (a small falcon) known in North America occurs on the District.
South-central Montana's Ashland Ranger District offers a variety of topography, varying from rolling grasslands to steep rock outcrops. Vegetation varies from prairie to dense stands of ponderosa pine. There are three riding and hiking areas on the Ashland: Cook Mountain, King Mountain, and Tongue River Breaks. These areas offer solitude in the middle of what's truly Big Sky Country.
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