Montana vacation?

Pompey's Pillar near Billings - The only physical evidence of the Lewis & Clark expedition - Clark carved a bunch of info on a rock

The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman - great dino museum. The lead paleontologist is actually the guy Michael Crichton based his lead character in Jurassic Park on

A Carousel for Missoula - a dirt cheap real, old-fashioned carousel with pipe organ, It also includes a MASSIVE playground

Fairmont Hot Springs - swimming, water slides, great family place

Yellowstone National Park - speaks for itself

Tons of outdoor stuff - camping, fishing, etc

Check out Montana's tourism website

http://travel.state.mt.us/

Yellowstone is always good, that's more in Wyoming than Montana though. Glacier National Park is also astounding, but that's up in the Northern part of the state.

If you want something fun for the kids, try taking them to the sapphire mines at Gem Mountain, near Anaconda. They'll sell you a bucket of dirt from the mine, and show you how to sift through it - you get to keep what you find. It's something like $10 a bucket. They'll even appraise what you find for you. It's a lot of fun, and every bucket has a good number of tiny sapphires in it - all colors.