Montana

• The Montana Yogo Sapphire is the only North American gem to be included in the Crown Jewels of England.

• Forty-six of Montana’s 56 counties are considered “frontier counties,” with an average population of 6 or fewer people per square mile.

• The moose, now numbering over 8,000 in Montana, was considered extinct in the Rockies south of Canada in the 1900s.

• No state has as many different species of mammals as Montana.

• The state’s official animal is the grizzly bear.


• It is a felony for a wife to open her husband's mail.

• Balls may not be thrown within the city limits.

• It's illegal to honk your horn in front of a sandwich shop at 9:00 p.m.

• It's illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish.

• It's illegal to own a skunk in Montana.

• It's illegal to give a beer to a fish.

• It's illegal to use a lasso to catch a person or a dog.

• It's illegal to bring a horse or pack mule into a bar.

• It's illegal to shoot any animal from a moving vehicle, except for whales.

• It's illegal to buy someone a drink without their permission.


• Ekalaka - The eerie rock formations in the Medicine Rocks State Park include weathered towers of sandstone where Native American tribes once sought medicinal plants.

• Butte - The Berkeley Pit is a mile-long, half-mile-wide pit is so poisonous that thousands of snow geese dropped dead during their migration in 1995 after having landed in the pit.

• Whitehall - The Ringing Rocks is a large boulder outcrop on the southwestern side of Dry Mountain in Jefferson County, known for having unique sonorous qualities when struck.

• Castle Town - Castle Ghost Town is one of the settlements that rose and fell with the silver mining industry of Montana in the 1800s, particularly in the Castle Mountains.

• Arlee - The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas is where you can find even more peace and tranquillity beyond Montana’s soothing alpine beauty and vast plains.