Arriving at Havre City-County Airport in Havre puts regional highlights within easy reach, from the Bear Paw Mountains to the Milk River and the wide-open Hi-Line. Havre is a railroad town at heart, built where the Great Northern crossed the northern Montana prairie, and it still has the feel of a working frontier crossroads. It is also a college town, home to Montana State University-Northern, which keeps the downtown bars and coffee shops busy. Standout experiences around Havre: - Take the Havre Beneath the Streets tour through the underground shops, saloon, and opium den that operated after the 1904 fire - Visit Wahkpa Chu'gn, a 2,000-year-old buffalo jump preserved right behind the shopping mall - Explore the brick officers' quarters at Fort Assinniboine, once the largest military post in Montana - Drive into Beaver Creek Park in the Bear Paw Mountains, the largest county park in the country - Browse the H. Earl Clack Museum for dinosaur eggs and homestead history - Watch the Amtrak Empire Builder roll into the historic depot - Fish and float the Milk River in summer Havre sits in the middle of the Hi-Line, so the drives run long and straight. Chinook and the Bear Paw Battlefield, where Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce surrendered in 1877, are 20 minutes east. The Rocky Boy's Reservation of the Chippewa Cree lies just south, and its summer powwow is one of the region's great gatherings. Great Falls is about two hours southwest, and the Canadian border is less than an hour north. Order a Montana beef steak and watch a prairie sunset that seems to last forever.