Welcome to Greater Yellowstone
Think about a region so awe-inspiring that after having seen it in 1871, the members of the Hayden Expedition sat around a campfire near the Madison River and conceived of an entity both audacious and visionary: a "National Park." — C.J. Box, novelist, Wyoming
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Photo © Daryl Hunter
The 6-mile (10-kilometer) long Quake Lake began to fill in 1959 when an earthquake-triggered landslide plugged the Madison River canyon. The slide buried 19 campers, but protected the lower Madison Valley from the tsunamis that sloshed over Hebgen Dam higher up the canyon.
The earthquake was measured at a magnitude 7.3 - 7.5 on the Richter scale, and was one of the strongest and deadliest to occur in Montana in the last 100 years. The landslide was one of the most-costly ever in the...
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Photo © Donnie Sexton / Travel Montana
Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center
This is a not-for-profit wildlife park and educational sanctuary that aims to educate the public about the lives of gray wolves and grizzly bears. All animals at this facility are no longer able to survive in the wild. Rather, the bears and wolves act as ambassadors, and help to create...
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Weekend quilt shows, craft markets, and fiddle music vitalize this early 20th century homestead as a living expression of Big Sky culture, then and...
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