Big Prairie

Big Prairie is an open meadow on the east side of the North Fork of the Flathead River in Glacier National Park, Montana, and also the site of a former settlement. In the early 20th century, at least 19 homesteads created a small community in what is now parkland. That past remains visible in a group of properties tied to the settlement, several listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including homesteads associated with Margaret McCarthy, J. K. Miller, William Raftery, the Schoenberger family, and Johnnie Walsh. Big Prairie is significant for combining a natural mountain landscape with preserved evidence of early homesteading.

Polebridge, Montana · United States