GREAT FALLS

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Summer’s here and adventure in Great Falls is heating up. Montana’s basecamp for art and adventure is your destination for quality me-time or family adventures. While you’re here, you can walk in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark while enjoying modern day amenities and rich cultural landscapes.

You can spend the day chasing rainbows on several rivers and streams — the Mighty Mo boasts blue ribbon fly waters, the best @CM Russell Museum on planet Earth. Or renew your spirit with a day hike through Sluice Boxes State Park, where it takes little imagination to see the tenacity miners had in the 1800’s. Feeling less outdoorsy? View wildlife at the C.M. Russell Museum, featuring the famed western artist’s masterpiece “The Exalted Ruler” depicting a regal bull elk with his herd.

Family-friendly experiences can be found throughout Great Falls including unique shopping downtown. Numerous museums, art exhibits and stunning hikes are close by. Enjoy the fish hatchery @ at State Park, breathtaking terrain along the Rocky Mountain Front or visit the famed Great Falls of the Missouri. Stroll or walk down the beaten path of the River’s Edge Trail where the inviting colors of fall will welcome you. No matter what you choose to do, when the seasons change and leaves turn to gold, the views only get better.

All that adventure can be exhausting, so it’s good Great Falls offers comfortable accommodations, local food, and a variety of museums and galleries when you’re ready for a break. Our VisitGreatFallsMontana.org downtown offers restaurants, brew pubs, and shops, where our accommodations on the riverfront provide great places to lay your head. Great Falls is your basecamp for art and adventure. Plan your trip today.

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Montana’s Basecamp GREAT FALLS for Art & Adventure

ou may have heard that Great Falls International Airport in Great Falls, Great Falls is home to cultural adventures with more museums per capita YMontana offers low costs on airfare to Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los than any other city in the State. Charlie Russell created works of art Angeles, but did you know, Great Falls has its own world-class experiences that captured our rugged independence. Lewis and Clark spent weeks to offer? Guests to Great Falls will find a wide range of outdoor adventures portaging our five falls and a 25,000 square foot interpretive center com- and a haven of rich arts, culture, and history in a vibrant, modern community memorates their tenacity. The largest bison cliff jump in North America, where an expansive, unspoiled, diverse landscape renews one’s spirit. First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park and National Historic Landmark, provides genuine insight to our first people’s independent spirit. Great Falls is a basecamp to day hikes in the Complex, south of Glacier National Park, in the Rocky Mountains, as While planning your next trip, if your headed somewhere warm, include well as in the , Highwood Mountains and Big Belt a few days in Great Falls before and after and take advantage of two Mountains. Explore our mining history with a hike through Sluice Boxes vacations in one, or take your next holiday in Great Falls, Montana’s State Park. Enjoy fishing, kayaking or paddle boarding on the Missouri Basecamp for Art & Adventure. River. Witness the world’s largest natural spring and shortest river side by side at Giant Springs State Park.

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