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The Best Attractions In Missouri River Country

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The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2,341 miles before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river takes drainage from a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of more than half a million square miles , which includes parts of ten U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. When combined with the lower Mississippi River, it forms the world's fourth longest river system.For over 12,000 years, people have depended on the Missouri River and its tributaries as a source of sustenance and transportation. More than ten major gr...
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The Best Attractions In Missouri River Country

  • 1. Fort Peck Lake Fort Peck
    The Fort Peck Dam is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River, located in northeast Montana in the United States, near Glasgow, and adjacent to the community of Fort Peck. At 21,026 feet in length and over 250 feet in height, it is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States, and creates Fort Peck Lake, the fifth largest man-made lake in the U.S., more than 130 miles long, 200 feet deep, and it has a 1,520-mile shoreline which is longer than the state of California's coastline. It lies within the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. The dam and the 134-mile-long lake exist for the purposes of hydroelectric power generation, flood control, and water quality management.The dam presently has a nameplate capacity of 185.25 megawatts, divided among 5 generati...
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  • 2. Fort Peck Interpretive Center Fort Peck
    The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located in the U.S. state of Montana. The refuge surrounds Fort Peck Reservoir and is 915,814 acres in size. It is the second-largest National Wildlife Refuge in the lower 48 states of the United States, and the largest in Montana. Created in 1936, it was originally called the Fort Peck Game Range. It was renamed in 1963 after Montana artist Charles M. Russell, a famous painter of the American West. In 1976, the range was made a refuge .
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  • 3. Great Plains Dinosaur Museum Malta Montana
    The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station is a paleontology museum located in Malta, Montana. Opened in 2008, the museum features exhibits of dinosaurs and other prehistoric fossils that were found in the area and state, including a Triceratops, Stegosaurus, sauropod, and hadrosaurs. The museum includes a fossil preparation lab and hosts dig trips. It is open seasonally. The museum is a member of the Montana Dinosaur Trail.
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  • 5. Bowdoin Lake Malta Montana
    Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,551-acre National Wildlife Refuge located in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Montana. The refuge is 7 mi northeast of Malta, Montana in the Milk River Valley and is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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