If you like a town with real Western flavor, try roaming the streets of Augusta. The Old West lingers in Augusta, where back-country wranglers swap tales with cowboys and visitors.
Montana has been called the "Last Best Place" and Augusta, MT has been called the "Last Original Cow Town in the West".
Cuddled in the shadow of the Rocky Mountain Front, Augusta serves as the Trailhead to the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Augusta is the "Gateway to the Crown Jewel" of the wilderness system. The Bob is one of the most completely preserved mountain ecosystems in the world. It is the kind of wilderness most people can only imagine.
Waving prairie grasses and scattered timber invited cattlemen into the Augusta area in the early settlement days of Montana. One of the very first white explorers to view the beauty of the Augusta area was Captain Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In early July of 1806, Lewis and his men traveled through this area and camped several nights near the present site of Augusta. The extensive journals maintained by Lewis contain references to the mountain south of Augusta, known today as Haystack Butte, and the "extensive, beautiful and level bottom" of the Augusta area.
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