The heart of the Breaks is the Missouri River. In its western section, the free-flowing river scours a deep canyon bristling with exotic rock formations and is surrounded by the BLM’s Upper Missouri River National Monument. Downstream, the Breaks are bordered by sprawling Fort Peck Reservoir, the uppermost—and the largest—of the big Missouri River impoundments that extend through the Dakotas and into Nebraska.

Read a blog about my hunt in the River Breaks from a few years ago.