Badlands


Makoshika State Park has dinosaur digs, historic district tours and the Frontier Gateway Museum. It is located near Glendive, eastern Montana, USA. It is Montana's largest state park with 11,500 acres. The visitor center has a triceratops dinosaur skeleton head and frill from this area. The soft rock strata in this region was formed into rugged badlands over time. Makoshika means "bad earth" or bad lands in Lakota language. Almost 80 million years can be seen in the rocks with fossils of plant and animal life. They date back to the age of reptiles. In the museum are dinosaur fossils, Indian artifact, plus farm machinery and blacksmith tools. The park is located on the Yellowstone River and Lewis and Clark Trail in Montana.


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