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    4.7 (10 reviews)

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    Yosmar J.

    If you're looking for a breath taking view of all of Bozeman, this is the perfect place!!! By all means is this place beautiful, refreshing, and workout (if you take the thought route). The tough route which roughly take about 30 min or so is quit steep. I strongly recommend this route if you consider yourself a bit active or willing to workout. It has many obstacles like rocks and steep hill. The view is AMAZING, it allows you to see the city on the right side and massive pine trees on the other. Being from LA we don't have many hike trains, but this one is one of the best trains if done those far. It's an ADVENTURE!!

    Candace L.

    Sweeping views, thunder, summer rain it all made for a nice hike. I'd looked into somewhere to get onto a trail within a couple hours of touching down in Bozeman and decided we'd hit the famous College M. Short and easy hike but I think the perfect way to start a trip in this area and get in some steps after brunch. I had recently picked up a couple items at a local running store and asked for a few suggestions for the area, they mentioned College M and the exposed trail and Sourdough Canyon which I had bookmarked. We ended up hiking Sourdough Canyon a few days later and I fell in love, but if I lived in the area and needed a quick and easy College M gets the job done. You can go the steeper shorter route or the more gradual further distance way up and behind the M, we chose this route just because we wanted to be outside a bit longer than the extremely short time it would have taken to do the steep shorter route. Parking lot with plenty of space when we arrived. Very friendly trail. Many trail runners and no mountain bikes in sight (which as much as I loved Sourdough Canyon, there were so many of). Will definitely hike these trails again when I'm back in town.

    Chandra J.

    An absolutely beautiful sight to see! I was told by coworkers that it was a "medium" beautiful climb that is work the hike. Fortunately they were right about the beautiful part, but not the medium part. The "easy" route of the hike is nowhere near easy at all and is hard and long. It will definitely take you about 40 minutes to get up. Wear comfortable hiking shoes, bring plenty of water, and do not be ashamed to stop and rest when you need to. The hike is definitely worth it as you get an amazing and beautiful view of the Gallatin mountains, various hills, and Bozeman. I would do it all again!

    Tom B.

    It's a climb mostly when your older but the trail is well worn and lots of hikers in case I need cared down. People park all over the place because it gets pretty busy but it's nice they have a rest room.

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    Lewis & Clark Caverns

    Lewis & Clark Caverns

    4.3
    (70 reviews)
    42.9 mi

    My friend Laura and I had the best time here today. She's lived here for like 15 years and had…read morenever been nor had I. Our tour guide was Christopher and he was just the BEST. He had an amazing knowledge of the caves and their history. We also enjoyed the gift shop and the restaurant after. We were starving from our cave exploration so the Bison burger hit just right!! Yum! We both expressed that we think our kids would also love the caves!! This is a gorgeous hour drive from Bozeman that I also thoroughly enjoyed.

    You must reserve the cave tours online before going. I had problems booking the tour, because my…read moreprimary browser would not display the CAPTCHA (are you a robot) link. They do not sell tickets at the site, and most tours are sold out by the date of the tours. There are two tours, both requiring a mile of walking round-trip to the cave entrance and back. The gravel road is wide and flat, and I do not understand why they don't have a shuttle, since the groups are fairly small. Also, we arrived early, but they refused to let us go on an earlier tour, even though there were several no-shows. So, we had to sit around for an extra hour, for no reason. They have a nice little visitor center with a good video, which our guide basically repeated on the tour. There is also a cafe and ample parking. We took the easier Paradise tour. From the cave entrance, we walked an additional 300 yards round-trip to the first of the two rooms on the tour. They say the other tour has a few additional, small rooms, and requires climbing up and down hundreds of steps, and squeezing through tight, slippery pathways. On our tour, the first room was small, but nice. The second room is the largest on either tour, and was quite beautiful. Even so, it was a lot of driving and walking for a couple of rooms. I've been to several, much more extensive caverns. I wouldn't put this at the top of my to do list in Montana, but the main cavern room is beautiful and the park is very scenic.

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    Palisade Falls

    Palisade Falls

    4.8
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    20.3 mi

    Ignore Google Maps when it warns you that part of the road here is unpaved for the last leg of the…read moredrive. It's actually recently paved, so you have a smooth ride to the parking lot! The path to the waterfall is also paved with asphalt so it's a smooth walk up and great for strollers. There are two vault toilets at the parking lot, and a small picnic area near the entrance of the parking lot. This is an amazing waterfall. Water cascades down a columnar basalt face so it's particularly stunning. I've seen amazing columnar basalt formations (Devils Tower, Devils Postpile), but none with a water element. It's very memorable. I saw some people trying to scramble up the rocks to get to the top of the waterfall, but I'm not sure how safe that is. From satellite photos it looks like there's just forest up there anyways.

    Amazing Hiking trail and falls!!! If you're looking for a…read morefairly easy, clean, green, and amazing trail. This is the right place. All the way up is paved which makes the experience nicer and easier, if you're not looking to break a leg going up haha. The sunset up there are amazing and all pictures are Instagram worthy!!! I took my 70 year old grandma and she enjoyed the hike and even made it from start to finish. The ride there is a bit intense with many curves so I'd recommend to take a bag for those that may get car sick. I'll be coming back to Montana, just for this beauty!

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