Museum of the Rockies (Where Gumbo Was #330)
Gumbo was visiting the fascinating Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The Museum is best know for its extensive dinosaur collection, but features exhibits broadly focused on Montana's history.
Gumbo was visiting the fascinating Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The Museum is best know for its extensive dinosaur collection, but features exhibits broadly focused on Montana's history.
Continuing north from Yellowstone, PortMoresby ends a wonderful trip with a visit to Billings, Montana and its historic mansion museum.
PortMoresby's tale of a visit to Yellowstone comes to an end with an appreciation of six days she'll never forget.
Today's travel day for Trix, a nearly-complete T-rex on her way to display in a Dutch museum, and O'Hare's throwing a farewell party.
DrFumblefinger collects photos of signs, and enjoyed those of old mining town, Butte.
A tour of Butte, a colorful mining town that is now worn but charming, highlighted by views of a classic Chevy being restored.
While it's not the largest lake in Montana's Glacier National Park, it certainly has one of the prettiest settings. Looking west towards the Continental Divide from the eastern bank, you have the view you see above. Looking...
“ Far away in northwestern Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain peaks, lies an unmapped corner – the Crown of the Continent .” George Bird Grinnell (1901) It’s hard for someone who loves being in...
Winter comes early to the Rocky Mountains, especially in the mountain passes and high meadows. But early fall is a great time to visit Glacier National Park. The throngs of families traveling during the summer are back home,...
When most people think of Montana, images of mountains or "Big Sky country" or wildlife spring to mind. Usually you don't think of a massive hole in the ground, but that was the focus of this week's puzzle. Gumbo was visiting the...
As we were leaving Yellowstone National Park through its northern entrance, we came across this lone pronghorn antelope beside the road just outside of Gardiner, Montana. There was a convenient pullout so I parked, grabbed my camera and...
Recently my wife and I traveled across Montana by car. It's a large state with some amazing mountain ranges and lots of wide open plains -- the "Big Sky" country the state is known for. The sun was beginning to set when I spotted a group...
Logan Pass (elevation 6,646 ft (2,026 m)) is located along the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. It is the highest point on the Going-to-the-Sun Road . The Logan Pass...
Seeing all fifty-nine national parks was never a dream of ours--especially not in fifty-nine weeks. We'd call it more of a whim, an impulse or an inspiration. Going to Yellowstone National Park in the winter was something we had...
I had a hunch when Shelly and I were planning our 59 National Park in 59 weeks tour that wildlife would be center stage. I knew that the buffalo would roam in Yellowstone, that the tropical fish would dance...