Hilger to James Kipp Recreation Area Missouri Breaks Backcountry Byway

Intrepid Travel: roads are gravel or dirt roads. Please be sure your vehicle is appropriate to those conditions. Note that some roads can be impassable during periods of inclement weather.

Major Guido Ilges arrived from Fort Benton with soldiers and ...

James Kipp Recreation Area

Although steamboats could travel as far up the Missouri River as Fort Benton during spring runoff, the lower water of summer and fall meant that Cow Island, near where Cow Creek joins the Missouri River, was the farthest upstream boats ...