Northwest Reel Life July 2024 Volume 3 Issue 9 - Flipbook - Page 12
If you are fishing out of
the Fort Peck area, you
really need to make the
time to visit the Fort Peck
Interpretive Center. This
first-class museum is
operated by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers and tells
a variety of stories.
Museum of the Rockies in
Bozeman but replicas are on
display here. Several other
fossilized skeletons and
replicas of dinosaurs and
prehistoric marine reptiles
can also be seen here.
The fish and wildlife found
in and around Fort Peck
Reservoir and the Missouri
The biggest attraction is
River are also on display.
the story of the reptiles
Fish can be seen in two
that lived here 65 million
large glass tanks and
years ago. The Interpretive
Center is part of Montana’s taxidermized animals can
Dinosaur Trail. Two fossilized be viewed in an impressive
Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons diorama.
have been found near here. Finally, the Interpretive
One is now on display at the Center tells the story of how
the dam, called the largest
Smithsonian Museum and
the other can be seen at the hydraulically filled earthen
dam in the world, was built
and how the community of
Fort Peck came to be. The
interpretive center is open
from Thursday through
Monday from 9 AM to 4 PM
between Memorial Day and
Labor Day weekend. There
is also a nice campground
and up to a two-mile-long
nature trail adjacent to the
Center.