Overnight August 17, 1959 the second largest (at the time) earthquake struck on the Madison River in Montana. It caused a landslide that moved 100 miles per hour (!!) In under a minute part of a mountain blocked the Madison River. 28 people lost their lives in the aftermath of the disaster. We learned a lot at the visitor center that sits above the landslide (called locally, simply, The Slide) and Earthquake Lake that was formed by the damning of the river. The USDA Forest Service always pays nice attention to details, and the Custer Gallatin National Forest is no exception. Check out the railing of the wheelchair ramp. It represents a seismograph, which is a physical record of the earth's movement during an earthquake. The area outside of the visitor center included a 3D model of the river before the landslide and my twins spent a lot of time being the landslide and blocking the 'river'. Our national forests are so much more than a potentially exploitable resource (as so many view them). They capture and preserve important US history that otherwise we might never know about. Is there a National Forest in your area? Have you visited it? What secret history does your National Forest hold? #HelloFrom #SummerBucketList #FortBirthday #theslide #ToddlerTravel #MomAndHerBoys #MommyBlogger #OldMom #marylandblogger #Twinstagram #TwinsOfInstagram #TwinLife #MotherhoodUnplugged #Mommy #LovelySquares #TheDailyBasic #nationalforestservice #funinthesun #FlashesOfDelight #earthquakelake #PhotosInBetween #myTinyMoments #mommyandme #treasuringLittleMemories #instatwins #aperfectday #ohmamamoment #humansofjoy #inbeautyandchaos. #GoOutsideAndPlay (at Earthquake Lake Visitor Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0nC91rgdef/?igshid=vzb2ay0aqf3z