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Montana Tourist Attractions
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Montana Tourist Attractions
Tourist attractions in Montana - Theme Parks, Tours, Museums, National Parks, Historic Sites & More!
Below is a list of attractions in Montana to help you plan a Montana Vacation! Find detailed information on the Montana tourist attraction entries by clicking on their links. Narrow your search by selecting from a specific Montana attraction category on the left hand menu.
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Explore All Of Montana's Regions
You can find Montana tourist attractions and activities in all of Montana's regions: Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell, Missoula, West Yellowstone and Other.
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Big Hole
National Battlefield
Category: Wisdom National Park in Montana
Description of this Montana Attraction: Big Hole National Battlefield is a memorial to the people who fought and died here on August 9 and 10, 1877; combatants in a five month conflict that came to be called the Nez Perce War of 1877. Like other Indian Wars in the late 1800's, the Nez Perce War involved two very different groups with very different outlooks on land rights, civilian authority, government powers, social organization, and the responsibilities of the individuals to society. In 1992, legislation incorporated Big Hole National Battlefield with Nez Perce National Historical Park, making it part of a unique park consisting of 38 different sites located in five states; Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
The visitor center, rest rooms and picnic area are accessible. The trails may be accessible to wheelchair users with help. They are packed earth and can be muddy in spring.
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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
National Recreation Area
Category: Fort Smith National Park in Montana
Description of this Montana Attraction: Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation. This dam, named after the famous Crow chairman Robert Yellowtail, harnessed the waters of the Bighorn River and turned this variable stream into a magnificent lake.
Bighorn Lake extends approximately 60 miles through Wyoming and Montana, 55 miles of which are held within spectacular Bighorn Canyon. The Recreation Area is composed of 70,000+ acres, which straddles the northern Wyoming and southern Montana borders. There are two visitor centers and other developed facilities in Fort Smith, Montana and near Lovell, Wyoming. The Afterbay Lake below the Yellowtail Dam is a good spot for trout fishing and wildlife viewing for ducks, geese and other animals. The Bighorn River below the Afterbay Dam is a world class trout fishing area.
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a lesser known treasure waiting to be discovered. It boasts breath-taking scenery, countless varieties of wildlife, and abundant recreational opportunities, such as boating, fishing, ice fishing, camping, and hiking. Bighorn Canyon offers visitors what few other National Park areas can, that of solitude, serenity, and beauty. In the midst of our chaotic world, this is a truly unique quality.
Yellowtail Dam Visitor Center, Fort Smith, Montana, and the top of the Dam is handicapped accessible. The tour of the dam and power house requires walking flights of stairs at several points along the tour.
Bighorn Canyon Visitor Center, Lovell, Wyoming is fully accessible including a nature trail encompassing the reflection pond behind the building. Crooked Creek Contact Station is also fully accessible.
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Garnet Ghost Town
1890s gold-mining community in western Montana
Category: Missoula Historic Site in Montana
Description of this Missoula Attraction: Located in the mountains of Granite County, Montana, about 45 miles east of Missoula, Garnet Ghost Town tells the story of bringing civilization to Montana, of the imagination it takes to create wealth in a difficult land, and of the perseverance whole families needed to survive in a harsh environment. Garnet’s story is different from the earlier Montana mining communities such as Bannack and Virginia City. Though placer mining began in the area in the 1860s, it wasn’t until relatively late, in the mid-1890s, that entrepreneurs brought to Garnet the industrial equipment needed for hard-rock mining. Soon, an isolated metropolis of over 1,000 souls sprang up. Miners brought their families up the long steep grade from the Northern Pacific stop at Bearmouth. Businesses thrived on a busy main street. More than 50 children went to school in the schoolhouse, and a miners’ union – one of Montana’s first unions – established itself.
But, by the onset of World War I, after the men had removed 60,000 ounces of gold, 50,000 ounces of silver, and 60,000 ounces of copper, the rich veins of minerals became harder and harder to find. Most veins abruptly ended in a fault line. The town began shrinking. There was a brief resurgence during the Great Depression when President Roosevelt doubled the price of gold, but Garnet unofficially became a ghost town with the death of Frank Davey, the mercantile owner, in 1947.
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Hockaday Museum of Art
Artistic Gateway to Glacier National Park
Category: Kalispell Art Museum in Montana
Description of this Kalispell Attraction: The Hockaday Museum of Art is home to Montana's unique art legacy, in particular the art and culture of Glacier National Park. The Crown of the Continent Gallery features master works, artifacts and collectibles from the nascent years of Glacier Park, interwoven with the Blackfeet Indian Nation, the Great Northern Railroad, and the artists who first painted, photgraphed, mapped and wrote about the region that was destined to become a National Park.
Traveling exhibitons showcase the work of nationally acclaimed regional artists, many of whom make their home in our Flathead Valley. Children experience the art of current exhibitions through hands-on activities in the Hockaday's Discovery Gallery. Trained Museum Docents lead gallery tours twice weekly for the public and as requested by numerous schools in the surrounding region. Members and visitors choose from a host of art programs throughout the year: artist studio tours; art lecture series'; art classes and workshops for adults, families, children and youth; opening receptions and artist talks; Members' show; art auctions and community art events. Shop for unique gifts created by local artists in the Museum’s Off the Wall Gift Gallery: pottery, jewelry, cards, artwork, books, and prints.
Arts in the Park, the largest art and music festival in Northwest Montana, is held in Kalispell's Depot Park each year on the fourth weekend in July. This juried art show is a benefit for the Museum and a favorite for browsing and buying jewelry, photography, paintings, and pottery from more than 100 artists and artisans. Free entertainment and great food and beverage vendors add to the weekend fun!
The Museum’s Glacier National Park Exhibition Gallery will always feature the rich art history of the Park, though the artists change from time to time. The exhibition includes the work of Marshall Noice, Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey, Mark Ogle, Joe Abbrescia, T.J. Hileman, John Clarke, O.C. Seltzer, John Fery, Ace Powell, Robert M. Stephens, Leonard Lopp, and other early and contemporary artists of the Park.
The Museum’s growing permanent collection focuses on the art and artists of Montana: works by Bud Helbig, Russell Chatham, Jeanne Hamilton, Hugh Hockaday, Frank Hagel, Leonard Lopp, Ace Powell, Gary Schildt, Tom Saubert and others.
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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
National Monument
Category: Crow Agency National Park in Montana
Description of this Montana Attraction: On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors converged on a grassy ridge rising above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry,including officers and troopers, fought desperately but hopelessly against many times their number. When the guns fell silent and the smoke and dust of battle lifted, no soldier survived. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument memorializes the epic Battle of the Little Bighorn fought on June 25-26, 1876. Here in the valley of the Little Bighorn, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer and 262 soldiers and attached personel of the 7th Cavalry, guided by Crow and Arikara scouts, met defeat and death by an overwhelming force of over 1,500 Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors.
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Miracle of America Museum
Montana's largest year around museum
Category: Polson Museum in Montana
Description of this Montana Attraction: Located just south of US Highway 93 and Montana 35 junction in Polson is the Miracle
of America Museum and Pioneer Village. Visitors call it the Smithsonian of
the West because of its variety of displays and the over 100,000 antique artifacts. shown.
They include Indian artifacts, dozens of vintage cars, cycles and boats, guns, homestead
items, 3 steam engines, tractors, over 40 one-lunger engines and tools of craftsmen from fiddle makers to blacksmiths. The 26 building Pioneer Village includes the State Fiddler Hall of Fame, a complete one-room school house, sod-roofed log cabin, saddlery, smithy,
carpentry shop, general store, tailoring shop, jail and a two story barn full of the largest barbed wire display in the state and vintage-unused horse drawn farm implements. The third weekend in July is Living History when locals demonstrate old-time crafts, and music or show how various pieces of equipment, including engines and tractors operated. The museum is open nearly year around, 8-8 daily in summer and reduced hours the rest of the year. It is mostly handicapped accessible, has easy access, reasonable rates and plenty of parking for cars, motorhomes or busses. For more information call 406-883-6804 or see us at www.cyberport.net/museum.
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PaleoWorld Research Foundation
Join a real dino dig. Open to all ages!
Category: Jordan Nature in Montana
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Description of this Montana Attraction: Ordinary people... Extraordinary discoveries!
DISCOVER A DINOSAUR!
June through August join PaleoWorld Research Foundation’s dinosaur research expedition in the Badlands of eastern Montana where you can take part in the discovery of a lifetime!
Our expedition searches for 65 million-year-old dinosaurs in a fossil-rich area known as the Hell Creek Formation located near the small town of Jordan, Montana that many call the “Dinosaur Capital of the World”. During past expeditions, we have found fossils of the three-horned Triceratops, the duck-billed Hadrosaur, and the ferocious Tyranosaurus rex.
Unlike many paleontological expeditions that allow only scholars to take part, PWRF promotes the concept of “real science for all people” and encourages the involvement of everyone who has an interest in dinosaurs, no matter their age, background or experience. It is a wonderful opportunity for families, children, students, and adults to take part in a truly unique, educational, and fun dinosaur adventure! Edutainment!
Dig-for-a-Day or spend the summer but make no mistake about it; our program is NOT a tour. Our expedition offers a true 100% hands-on experience to all participants. Upon joining the expedition, you become a PWRF “associate researcher” and you are given the opportunity to learn about and take part in actual field techniques used to find, collect, and preserve dinosaur fossils.
For complete information on our 2009 expedition, visit our website at http://www.paleoworld.org or email us at paleoworld@paleoworld.org.
Try something different during your summer vacation…
DISCOVER A DINOSAUR!
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