Hey Evan! I work for Permies and live in the Little Belt Mountains, which is in central Montana. There are lots of great sites to see along the way (I've driven that route along 90 soooo many times, but I always go the northern way).
Sluice Boxes State Park
This is just up the road from where I live and is positively gorgeous - there's hiking, wildflowers, bears,
deer, just lovely. Just make sure if you come out this way you do so with a full tank of gas, few stops along the way.
Then of
course, there's the Permies location itself,
Wheaton Labs! We don't disclose the exact location publicly unless arrangements are made, but it's about an hour outside of Missoula Montana, which is just west of the Rockies.
You are absolutely welcome to stop by and check out the projects we have going, and of course, in Missoula itself there are a lot of unique dining options that the rest of Montana doesn't typically offer (not always a very vegan-friendly state around here). If you'd like to stop in, just make sure to make arrangements to do so ahead of time.
You can find all of the information you'll need
here in the
Gapper thread, and you can email permiesATpermiesDOTcom if you'd like to make some plans to come out.