Frontier Gateway Museum is historical in content beginning with prehistoric times continuing into the 21st century. It includes seven buildings on an acre of land. Major displays in the main building include fossils, Native American artifacts, homesteaders, cattlemen, settlers, and railroad. The Frontier Gateway is one of two Montana Dinosaur Trail stops in Glendive.

201 State St.
406-377-8168

Hours: Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m.- 5 p.m.

The museum houses more than 24 full-size dinosaurs plus numerous singular fossils. It also houses informative exhibits explaining the origin of the geologic column, the fossil record, the age of the earth, as well as a Biblical history exhibit, a theater and a gift shop.

139 State St.
(406) 377-3228

May-September
Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Makoshika State Park is located just southeast of Glendive. Makoshika means ‘bad land’ in Lakota, and the Park’s landscape is part of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation. Over ten different dinosaur species have been discovered in Makoshika. The recently refurbished visitor center houses the Triceratops skull, and provides additional interpretive displays significant to the badlands. Makoshika State Park is also one of two stops in Glendive on the Montana Dinosaur Trail.
1301 Snyder Ave.
406-377-6256

Hours vary by season visit the website for more information

Baisch’s Dinosaur Digs, LLC, conducts paleontological day trips on a privately owned ranch, within view of Makoshika State Park, and just a few miles from the town of Glendive. Much of the ranch is composed of the highly eroded gumbo of the badlands that is rich in fossil. Since dinosaur bone begins to deteriorate within a few years of being exposed to the air, there is the constant quest to find and preserve fossils before nature turns them to sand.

Guided hunts can go out from April through October depending on the weather and conditions.

Not taking reservations for 2024
jsbaisch@midrivers.com
(406) 365-4133

This statewide trail runs across Montana and consists of 14 locations from the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center in Bynum to the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka. Each location offers a glimpse at the historic discoveries in the state and provides visitors with a better understanding of the giants that once inhabited our planet.

While in Glendive stop at the two different locations along the Trail! The Frontier Gateway Museum displays a full-size skeleton cast of “Margie,” the Struthiomimus found near Glendive in the early 1990s. Makoshika State Park has had significant discoveries including a complete Triceratops horridus skull, the fossil remains of Edmontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex, and a nearly complete skeleton of the rare Thescelosaur. The visitor center houses the Triceratops skull, and provides additional interpretive displays significant to the badlands.

Help excavate a 66 million year old microsite!

Join Dinodave with an amazing hands-on paleo experience, sifting one of the best microsites he has ever seen. This site is packed full of teeth, vertebrae, claws etc. of fauna from the Late Cretaceous ecosystem. Most likely find could find: Triceratops, Hadrosaur, Therapod, crocodile and even mammal teeth. All in one place! Fridays only and each session is limited to just 10 people.
Restrictions apply.

Call 406-880-7529 for more information