Medicine Rocks State Park

02/13/2025

02/07/2025

We are thrilled to announce that the now has its very own Penny Press machine! Each design features an iconic object from Carter County and includes artwork by Dr. Nathan Carroll, Ernest Tooke, and Jenn Hall Tooke. The museum logo is on the back of each penny. Visit the museum to collect them all!

02/07/2025

🎉 Our Most Anticipated Montana Trips for 2025 🎉

We’re hoping to visit many different parts of Montana this year, but these are the 5 places we’re most looking forward to:

⛷ Skiing at Teton Pass Ski Resort - After their season got cut way too short last year, we’re thrilled to see how much snow’s been falling on Teton lately. It’s a hill that’s never crowded, has affordable lift tickets, and offers gorgeous scenery. We can’t wait to hit the slopes up there!

❄ Snowshoeing in Glacier National Park - Glacier is awe-inspiring at any time of year, but as we all know, it’s also shockingly crowded in the summer. Come winter, though, Glacier feels like a hidden gem. And we’re planning to finally do one of their guided snowshoe hikes this year!

🥾 Hiking on the CDT - We consider ourselves something akin to thru-hiking groupies or at least wannabe trail angels, but the only time we’ve ever been on the Continental Divide Trail was volunteering at a trail maintenance day last summer. This is the year for an actual hike!

🖼 Visiting the Three Chiefs Cultural Center - Formerly known as The People’s Center, this museum in Pablo burned down in a horrific arson fire in 2020. Fortunately, not all of the artifacts were damaged, and the museum has since re-opened. We’re looking forward to visiting on our next trip to the Flathead area!

⛺️ Camping at Medicine Rocks State Park - We’re getting close to completing our quest to visit every Montana state park, and Medicine Rocks is the most exciting of the ones we have left. It’s full of fascinating and unusual rock formations that we can’t wait to see!

08/14/2024

Time and location change for tonight’s event! See you at the Carter County Museum at 7 PM!

Good afternoon! We have a LOCATION & TIME CHANGE for the Astronomy program with the Montana Learning Center tonight! Due to the high chance of thunderstorms and cloud cover, we will have the program at the Carter County Museum at 7 p.m.

07/25/2024

Attention: To those planning on joining us tonight (July 25) at Medicine Rocks State Park, we are going forward with yoga at 8 p.m. and the bat walk at 9 p.m. BUT, the cloud cover will make it impossible to see the stars. Instead, we will have a fossil fluorescence demonstration and discussion following the bat walk. Hope to see you there!

Photo description: mosasaur vertebrae in the field under UV light. Photo by Henry Ballard for Carter County Museum.

07/17/2024

06/20/2024

Weather update for tonight’s night sky event: even with it cloudy, we will still have the event at the Sunset Loop area. The presentation will start at 9PM. See you there!

06/18/2024

Join us tomorrow evening for our first night sky event of the year!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 AT 9 P.M.
Apsáalooke Star Stories with Shawn Backbone
Free Admission

Join us at Medicine Rocks State Park at the Sunset Loop for an evening of stories about our world from the Apsáalooke people. The Apsáalooke, or Crow, have ties to the Medicine Rocks area and their reservation is located in southern Montana. Our speaker, Shawn Backbone, is a member of the Apsáalooke/Crow Tribe and has served as a tribal officer and legislator, with a strong belief in empowerment and giving back to his community.

(Sponsored by Humanities Montana, Co-hosted with Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks)

06/17/2024

We are so excited to begin the Junior Scientist Program at Carter County Museum on Monday, June 17! Classes will run from 10-noon Monday-Thursday each week and are led by our summer 2024 museum educator, Hannah Bradford! Our schedule is posted below and on our website at https://cartercountymuseum.org/junior-scientist-summer-program. It will also be published in the Ekalaka Eagle on June 14. We will update with next month's schedule on June 28.

06/05/2024