Great Falls, Montana

This is just an overnight stop for us. We will be in West Glacier tomorrow. It has been a smooth and relatively easy trip.  If you are in someplace called “Great Falls” you gotta go see what all the fuss is about. 

Named by the Lewis and Clark exposition. I imagine the falls were more “impressive” before the Missouri River was dammed to produce electricity. 

Lewis and Clark were the first known white explorers to catch sight of the "great falls" on the Missouri River…they heard the roaring of the falls more than seven miles away.

Their expedition took nearly a month to portage around the falls. Before the party left in mid July of 1805, they celebrated the Fourth of July in the new territory of Great Falls shooting their guns and drinking whiskey. Appropriate that we visited the falls today on Independence Day 2022!  

This train trustle was built in 1902 and is still in use. That is impressive!