Looking for something unique to do while you're in Montana?

Do you enjoy museums, dinosaurs, and history? Well, you're in luck. Montana is RICH in paleontological finds.

You can discover many exciting dinosaur finds on Montana's Dinosaur Trail and experience everything from Field Digs to Programs to special Exhibits!

The Tour Starts at the Carter County Museum, Ekalaka: Montana's first county museum, it features many paleontological finds. Then leads you to the following locations:

Makoshika State Park, Glendive: Makoshika (meaning "bad land" in Lakota) is part of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation; more than ten different dinosaur species have been discovered in or near Makoshika's borders.

Makoshika Dinosaur Museum, Glendive: The Makoshika Dinosaur Museum displays fossils from around the world.

Garfield County Museum, Jordan: The Garfield County Museum features Cretaceous fossils from the Hell Creek Formation. The first T. rex ever discovered was found near Jordan in 1902!

Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Museum, Fort Peck: The Fort Peck Interpretive Center's signature attraction is "Peck's RexTM," one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found.

Blaine County Museum, Chinook The Blaine County Museum's Paleontology Department displays a dozen Judith River Formation exhibits including Hadrosaur, Gorgosaurus, and Ankylosaurus fossils from the area.

Phillips County Museum, Malta: The Phillips County Museum features fossil discoveries from the nearby Judith River Formation (late cretaceous period, 77 million years ago). Features include a 33-foot long skeleton of "Elvis" the Brachylophosaurus, one of the best articulated dinosaur skeletons ever found.

Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station, Malta: Opened June 2008, the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station houses some of Montana's finest fossils and a preparation lab.

Fort Peck Field Station of Paleontology,Fort Peck: This unique working field station associated with the University of Montana's Paleontology Department is a state fossil repository.

Earl Clack Memorial Museum, Havre: The museum's feature displays are 75 million year old dinosaur eggs and embryos found in area exposures of the Judith River Formation.

Rudyard Depot Museum, Rudyard: The Rudyard area has provided dinosaur specimens for the Museum of the Rockies (MOR) and other premier institutions for years.

Upper Musselshell Museum, Harlowton: The museum's centerpiece is "Ava," the full-size skeleton replica of a "first of its kind" Avaceratops, found in the Judith River Formation near Shawmut.

Old Trail Museum, Choteau: Unearth the Mystery, past and present, at the Old Trail Museum. The Dinosaur Antechamber showcases discoveries from the area's Two Medicine Formation: Maiasaura and Einosaurus skulls, nestling, hatchling and adult Maiasaura skeletons and bones, and a Sauronitholestes skeleton casting are featured exhibits.

Two Medicine Dinosaur Center, Bynum: See the first baby dinosaur bones found in North America, the Guinness Book of World Records largest, scientifically accurate dinosaur reconstruction - Seismosaurus halli (earth-shaker lizard), and other spectacular dinosaur-related displays.

Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman: Home to one of the largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world, the Museum of the Rockies houses the world's largest T. rex skull and one of the first identified female dinosaurs in the world - an ovulating T. rex.

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Kevin & Monica Ray are real estate sales and marketing professionals for Access Realty in beautiful Western Montana. For more information on Western Montana, they can be reached at 406-207-1185 or online at www.YourMT.com.