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The record-breaking season will help park officials prepare for the upcoming Centennial in 2016, which is expected to draw large crowds of visitors.

Anthony Bourdain came to Butte last month, and Butte showed him a good time.

8. There’s more to Montana than just mountains and trees and snow….and beer.

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Join us as we embark on a week long, self-guided fly fishing trip to explore the unbelievably beautiful, natural landscapes that characterize the headwaters of the immense Clark Fork watershed, and document the sights and sounds of the abundance of wildlife that inhabits this ever-shrinking expanse of western wilderness – an area that many have come to call, The Last Great Place.

Hotels are beginning to reevaluate checkout policies, with some brands going so far as eliminating checkout times all together.

"Across the board, we are looking at a record-breaking year, as of this point in the year compared to 2014," said communications officer Daniel Iverson, of the Office of Tourism & Business Development.

"We really wanted to get places that are not as well-known because those other places are already highlighted," said Mark Good of the Montana Wilderness Association.

"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."

In 1978, a rock shop owner scouring the plains of Montana discovered the skeletal remains of a complete unknown type of dinosaur.