Central Montana Blog

July 2, 2013

The 24th Annual Lewis & Clark Festival was held this past weekend on the banks of the Missouri River in…

June 24, 2013

A week ago I had the chance to tour Bear Gulch Pictographs southeast of Lewistown. I’d heard about Bear Gulch…

May 30, 2013

Actually, the Old Fort at Fort Benton opened with a “boom”! The firing of the cannon has become a ritual…

July 25, 2012

I’d like to start out by explaining how to say Wahkpa Chu’gn…it’s easiest to say Walk-pa Chew-gun. Learning how to…

July 18, 2012

A lot of folks on a Montana vacation don’t realize we have a state dinosaur – yup – it’s the…

August 9, 2012

In the Lewis & Clark journals you can read how members of the expedition had trouble with their moccasins. The…

August 8, 2012

For the last few days a small film crew has been capturing footage either on the Missouri River or on…

September 24, 2012

I’ve been to the restored fort in Fort Benton before but my travel buddies had not been there. I was…

September 28, 2012

Central Montana is a mecca for folks interested in railroad history. Harlowton was the end of the electric train line and one…

July 10, 2012

First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park was our first visit Sunday morning. There was a bit of haze in the…

August 16, 2012

Fort Benton’s Ag Museum (technically called the State of Montana’s Museum of the Northern Great Plains) is truly a step…

September 25, 2012

We were touring around Fort Benton recently and spent the night at the Grand Union Hotel. The hotel sits at…