What Do You Know About Montana?
If you are looking for a new vacation location, then you may want to give some serious thought to the bounty of fun to be found in Montana.
After all, where else can you see 8 Native American reservations, trek along historic trails like the Lewis and Clark Trail, and see the site of the Battle of Little Big Horn and Custer's Last Stand? Montana is place of adventure that can entertain its guests-regardless of age, interest, budget or physical capabilities.
If you have never been to Montana and don't remember much about it from classes on history, here are some fun facts about this beautiful state.
Don't miss the chance to visit this magnificent state.
After all, where else can you see 8 Native American reservations, trek along historic trails like the Lewis and Clark Trail, and see the site of the Battle of Little Big Horn and Custer's Last Stand? Montana is place of adventure that can entertain its guests-regardless of age, interest, budget or physical capabilities.
If you have never been to Montana and don't remember much about it from classes on history, here are some fun facts about this beautiful state.
- Montana gets its name from the Spanish word, "la montaña", which means mountain.
- The state has 2 nicknames.
It is called the Treasure State because of the many mining resources and the Big Sky Country because of its spacious skies. - State bird - Western Meadowlark
- State tree - Ponderosa Pine
- State fish - Black spotted cutthroat trout
- State Animal - Grizzly Bear
- State gemstones - sapphire and the moss agate
- Land area - 147,046 square miles; 4th largest US state
- Montana is 559 miles long and 321 miles wide.
- Motto - Oro y Plata translated from Spanish meaning Gold and Silver
- Montana's capital, Helena began as a mining town in the 1860s as part of the "Last Chance Gulch" area.
- In 1864 a group of 22 outlaws calling themselves the Montana Vigilantes roamed the mining towns.
They would hang up posters with skull and crossbones and the numbers 3-7-77.
No one ever learned what the numbers meant, but Montana highway Patrol officer wear a patch with these numbers on it today. - Montana has temperatures ranging from 28 degrees F in January to 84.
5 degrees F.
in July, with an average of precipitation of 15 inches, though it has been known to reach 100 inches. - Montana is home to portions of the Yellowstone National Park, and the Glacier National Park.
Don't miss the chance to visit this magnificent state.
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