So-so at best.

Reviewed by S. Zailskas, 2009-03-28

We bought a few guides to Montana, including this one, and we wouldn't recommend Frommer's Montana & Wyoming. If you want a big picture overview of these states -- a place to look at a map and get your bearings, as well as a nice, short paragraph summarizing the MAJOR points of interest -- this is a decent book. I say decent because once you do get your bearings and want to make a decision about what to visit, there isn't enough detail to do so. I also found it really outdated in terms of perspective. In the front of the book, it describes what an ATM is -- even international travelers are familiar with that term. Another example: the Glacier National Park section tells you to bring plenty of film. Film? Really? Comparatively, other guides assume people use digital cameras and spell out where people can buy film if they are still using it. This guide's perspective is outdated even for a general travel guide such as Frommer's. Travel guides are expensive; you could do better buying others and browsing this one in a library for your initial research because it doesn't provide much more than you could find during initial research on the Internet.