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ALL Local Guides around the world are welcome to participate in the #StateChallenge!!! Whether or not you have visited the United States, you can visit it on Google Maps🗺. Each #StateChallenge invites you to ✏️write an article, attend a State Trivia 👫Meetup🤳, and 📖read other Local Guide's #StateChallenge articles. Details of the challenge are here. If you write a 🏞Montana🤠 article, make sure to link to it in the comments so we can include it in our recap!
✔️Articles must be published by midnight Pacific Standard Time on 6/26/2020
✔️500 words or less
✔️Link your article in the comments here
✔️Attend the Meetup
Challenge: MONTANA
What have you 👀seen, 🎣done, 🍔eaten or 🏕experienced in 🏞Montana? If you traveled there, what would you want to 😎see, 🏇do 🍗eat or ⛷experience in 🗻Montana?
Here is a list of interesting places in 🤠Montana🤠 to help get you started!
Fun facts about Montana:
- Montana grows many of the seed 🥔potatoes🥔 that later grow up to become the famous Idaho potatoes.
- The Roosevelt Arch, located in Gardiner, Montana, is the most famous Gateway to Yellowstone.
- Missouri Headwater State Park is where the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers merge to form the Missouri River - which is 3701.5 km long.
- The average square mile of land contains 1.4 elk🦌, 1.4 pronghorn antelope, and 3.3 deer.
- 46 out of Montana’s 56 counties are considered “frontier counties” with an average population of 6👬👫👭 or fewer people per square mile.
- Montana is the only state with a triple divide allowing water to flow into the 🌎Pacific, 🌏Atlantic, and 🌏Hudson Bay. This phenomenon occurs at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park.
- Flathead Lake in northwest Montana contains over 200 square miles of water and 185 miles of shoreline. It is considered the largest natural freshwater 🗻 lake 🗻 in the west. (and is the rumored home of the 🐳Flathead Lake Monster🐳, similar to the Loch Ness Monster...)
- The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman gained fame through the work of its chief paleontologist, Jack Horner. Horner was the prototype for the character Dr. Alan Grant in the best selling novel/movie, “Jurassic Park.”
- Fort Keogh holds the record for the 📏largest ❄️snowflake❄️ ever observed, which was an astounding 15 inches in diameter.
- There are more cattle in Montana than there are people. 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🤠🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄
Montana is where I spent most of my life, so if you have any questions, ask away! I love to talk about my mountain home!
This post is part of the #StateChallenge organized by @Kwiksatik and @Denise_Barlock. If you want to find out more, check out the post here, and you can also find other submissions by searching the #StateChallenge hashtag. There is also a virtual meet-up on Montana coming up which you can sign up to for very soon!
