HD 422 covers the country around Glendive itself and the badland-breaks country running west and south—Makoshika State Park's badland country, the Yellowstone bottom around town, and the dramatic breaks where the prairie cuts down toward the river. Elevations run from about 2,000 feet on the Yellowstone to 3,200 feet on the higher prairie ridges. Makoshika ("bad earth" in Lakota) is the headline geological feature: deeply eroded sandstone and shale badlands with hoodoos, buttes, dinosaur fossil beds, and ponderosa-pine and juniper draws on the cooler aspects. Around the badland country you've got the Yellowstone bottom—cottonwood gallery forest, irrigated ag, sloughs—and rolling sage prairie further out. Mule deer use the badlands and the timbered draws in real numbers and 422 has a real reputation for trophy-class bucks. Whitetail in the bottoms; pronghorn on the prairie; sharptails and pheasant in the ag edges. Makoshika State Park is closed to general hunting (check current regs), but BLM tracts in the surrounding breaks are walkable and good. DNRC state and significant private fill in the rest. Block Management is critical. I-94 cuts the unit, MT-200 spurs south, and a network of county and BLM dirt routes drops into the breaks. Glendive has full services as noted under HD 421. Cell service is good in town and around I-94, weakens off it. The breaks roads gumbo when wet. The mule deer hunt is the headline opportunity—a hunter who walks the BLM badland country in early November, before the rut peaks, can find some of the most striking country in eastern Montana.