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Pryor Mountain Road (PMR) is the primary motorized access into the north Pryor Mountains. It is a scenic drive providing great views, opportunities for bird and wildflower watching, and a drive back through 400 million years of geologic history.
The Pryor Mountains are unlike any other landscape in Montana - and beyond. They are utterly different from the Beartooth Mountains only 40 miles to the west. The Pryors are geologically, ecologically, meteorologically, and culturally unique - an island of mountains rising from the prairie, formed by erosion of uplifted sedimentary rock ...
Mar 21, 2024 · As the beautiful craggy cliffs give way, however, the mountains taper down until they are little more than undulating hills with the occasional rocky outcropping. Here, where the west meets the east, the majesty of the immense mountains is punctuated with a small range called the Pryor Mountains.
Feb 24, 2015 · BLM. The Pryor Mountains are to the west and north of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The product of arched uplifts, they are good examples of fault block mountains. They have steep east facing fronts that have eroded back from the plane of the fault zone and gentle slopes off to the west controlled by the resistance to erosion of the ...
Approximately 38,000 acres. Highest Peak—approximately 8,500 feet (East Pryor Mountain) Accessible year-round. Things to Do in the Pryor Mountain Regions. Wild Horse Range. The Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range is one of the reasons more people have heard of the Pryor Mountains.
South half of range is National Forest/BLM with public access. North half of range is Crow Indian Reservation. History of Pryor Mountains. July 1806, 1st Sergeant Nathaniel Hale Pryor of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery was in command of a squad herding horses bought from the Nez Perce for trade at a Mandan village.
The Pryors Mountains, about 40 miles south of Billings, include approximately 150,000 acres of public land with management fractured among Custer Gallatin National Forest (CGNF), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area (BCNRA). Additional Pryors landscape is on Crow Tribal land to the north.
