{"id":2312,"date":"2014-06-03T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2014-06-03T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:33:11","slug":"makoshika-hailed-as-hidden-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/06\/makoshika-hailed-as-hidden-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Makoshika hailed as &#8216;hidden gem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2313\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-2313 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-mak-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mako\" width=\"336\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caprock adorns pillars of sandstone in Makoshika State Park.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateparks.mt.gov\/makoshika\/\">Makoshika State Park<\/a> in Glendive, an 11,538-acre collection of weathered rock, multicolored badlands and wide expanses of native grass, has been hailed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.country-magazine.com\/\">Country magazine<\/a> as one of the 10 &#8220;most magnificent, unheralded parks across America.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The June\/July issue of the magazine does the heralding in\u00a0a special section headlined\u00a0&#8220;Hidden Gems: Best Parks in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the magazine described Makoshika in a press release: &#8220;At\u00a0Makoshika State Park, the largest state park in Montana, the forces of erosion have been sculpting stone and sand spires for hundreds of thousands of years. Makoshika offers anything from an 18-hole disc golf course across the famous Badlands to a naturally formed amphitheater, where talks and performances are held throughout the summer. The park\u2019s pre-historic feel isn\u2019t just an illusion, as it\u2019s one of the most famous fossil hunting grounds in the country \u2014 10 different dinosaur fossils were discovered in this cache, including Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story and photos are by <a href=\"http:\/\/portfolios.chuckhaney.com\/index.php#mi=2&amp;pt=0&amp;pi=1&amp;s=11&amp;p=-1&amp;a=0&amp;at=0\">Chuck Haney<\/a> of Helena.<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makoshika State Park in Glendive, an 11,538-acre collection of weathered rock, multicolored badlands and wide expanses of native grass, has been hailed by Country magazine as one of the 10 &#8220;most magnificent, unheralded parks across America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[752,750,751,749],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-chuck-haney","tag-country-magazine","tag-glendive","tag-makoshika-state-park","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}