Great Falls Montana
There's much to do here. Take a ride on the Great Falls Historic Trolley through the downtown area and maybe purchase a Lewis and Clark Coin. Great Falls has some of the best car shows, rodeos, concerts, motorcross and stock car racing, monster truck challenges, and hometown blues and bluegrass events. more info
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Best Western Heritage Inn
With the pool, hot tub, sauna and many gathering areas you are sure to enjoy just reading a book or catching up with friends.
Plan your vacation around one of Great Falls annual events:
• RiverFest • Blues and Brews • Testicle Festival • Ice Breaker
• Montana State Fair • Great Falls Symphony & Symphonic Choir
• MAGIE • C.M. Russell Art Auction of Original Western Art
• Great Falls Homebuilders Home Show • Cruisin' the Drag
• Farmers Market • Taste of Great Falls • Parade of Lights
• Great Falls Gun & Antique Show • Spring Fling Hoop Thing
• S.P.O.R.T. Expo • Montana Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals
• Fourth of July Parade • Downtown Christmas Stroll
and more.
On top of all this, Great Falls has nine museums and interpretive centers: Cascade County Historical Society, Charles M. Russell Museum, Children's Museum of Montana, Galerie Trinitas, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center, Malmstrom Air Force Base Museum, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Ulm Piskun State Park Visitor Center, and Ursuline Centre.
Great Falls boasts a number of firsts too:
Great Falls had the first fire bell in the State of Montana in 1887;
Great Falls was the first known community in Montana to elect an African American. In 1894, William M. Morgan was elected to one of two open constable positions;
Great Falls had the first woman newspaper editor in Montana. Martha Edgerton Rolfe became editor of the Great Falls Leader in 1895 when her husband died of typhoid fever. Mrs. Rolfe, daughter of the first territorial governor of Montana, was also the first white woman to live in Great Falls arriving in May of 1884;
Great Falls bought the first motorized fire fighting apparatus in the State of Montana in 1910;
In 1982, Great Falls hired the first female firefighter in the state.
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