The 10 Best Waterfalls in Montana

Kootenai Falls: the whole river dropping through a mile of ledges, plus the famous swinging bridge — free, roadside, and the Kutenai center of the world.

St. Mary Falls' turquoise thunder off Going-to-the-Sun Road — no park reservation needed in 2026, first trail snow-free each summer.

Virginia Falls, the 100-foot second act a half-mile past St. Mary — Glacier's best waterfall double-bill.

Running Eagle, the falls with a trick: over the top in spring, out of a cave by fall — wheelchair-accessible in Two Medicine.

Apikuni's hundred-foot ribbon above Many Glacier — short, steep, grizzly-serious.

Bird Woman Falls, 640 feet unspooling from a hanging valley — the waterfall you watch for two miles of the Sun Road.

Holland Falls over its lake with the Missions behind — the Swan Valley's best three miles.

Ousel Falls on Big Sky's groomed town trail — great in July, arguably better frozen in January.

Palisade Falls down columnar basalt on a fully paved 0.3-mile path — Hyalite Canyon's five-dollar showpiece.

Grotto Falls, mile one of Hyalite's eleven-falls trail — the easy start of Montana's best waterfall walk.