Glendive, Montana Vacations
Glendive Montana offers great Montana family vacations
by Michele Kadison
Glendive makes a great stop for your Montana family vacation, offering chances to see dinosaur bones and interesting geological history at the Makoskika State Park. It’s a great place to visit for a couple days, while doing a beautiful Montana drive to sites such as Yellowstone National Park or Glacier National Park. You’ll also find great Montana hotels, lodges and other places to stay during your travels.
The park, which borders Glendive, is considered one of the most interesting badlands in the United States with a plethora of mineral, dinosaur bone, and prehistoric fossil displays. The park offers fantastic nature trails and scenic drives that take you through pinnacles, caprocks, hogback ridges, and sculpted hillsides molded through time by the elements. The 11,531 acre park includes a campground and an archery range.
Glendive sits in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, and is well known for the plume and moss agates that abound in in gravel beds, creek bottoms, and on the banks of the Yellowstone River. Visit the Best Western Jordan Inn to see their display of beautiful agates. If you are on the market for purchasing agates, visit the Glendive Chamber of Commerce for a list of local retailers.
Make sure that you take a tour through Glendive’s Frontier Gateway Museum where you will find choice American Indian artifacts, farm and smithing tools, as well as many rare dinosaur fossils. A popular exhibit in Glendive is “Merrill West,” a walkway that takes you through Glendive of the 1800s. Here you can see a rural schoolhouse, a log cabin, a windmill pump, a restored sheep wagon, a smithy shop, and a restored fire truck from 1916. You can also take the self-guided walking tour though Glendive’s Downtown Historic District to see buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
One of Glendive’s most famous landmarks is the Bell Street Bridge, which was built in 1894 and destroyed by an ice jam in 1899. The bridge was rebuilt between 1924 and 1926 to show its brilliant engineering and to commemorate its role in the commercial development of the region. Now a pedestrian walkway lined by street lamps, the bridge is honored every September with a special celebration.
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