Grizfan-24 said:Can all of the options be true?
Semantically, grew up listening to friends and family consistently referring to Great Falls as "Eastern Montana." I know that geographically it makes no rational sense to refer Great Falls, the Golden Triangle, as Eastern Montana, but it was a part of the lexicon. So it 'feels' Eastern Montana while making those many car trips to Big Sandy and Havre in my youth, but the geographic reality not so much.
As a side note about drives:
1. Highway 200 might be my favorite road to travel in the state. Provides one of the most scenically diverse drives you could find, including long stretches of the Blackfoot, Clark Fork and Flathead Rivers but my favorite is coming over the top of Rogers Pass to the east and watching the whole plains open up before your eyes and it takes you through Lewistown which during the spring is so visually appealing.
2. For nostalgic purposes the other drive that I enjoy is the road between Malta to Grass Range/Judith Gap. Two particular reasons: First love that you can drive that road for five hours and not see another car (grass growing in the highway is an added bonus). The other it is you get to see the back side of the Bears Paw, the Missouri River Breaks (Fred Robinson Bridge) and the Crazies. Might seem desolate to some, but I enjoy the remoteness of that drive and how you can easily visualize what the plains looked like pre- American civilization.
Well said 24. I remember Great Falls referred too as Eastern Montana. I was a sales rep so traveled Montana and Wyoming extensively. It hasn’t changed much which is good.