Missouri Headwaters State Park Presents June Events

Missouri Headwaters State Park will begin its summer speaker series next month, featuring musicians, historians, and other guests at events celebrating Montana.

Each event will be held behind the park office starting at 7 PM. These programs are free to Montana residents, and an $8 entrance fee applies at Montana state parks for all nonresident vehicles. Visitors are encouraged to bring their own chairs and insect repellent. S’mores will be served after each program.

Missouri Headwaters State Park is on Trident Road, about 5 miles northeast of Three Forks. For more information about the park, please click here or call 406-285-3610.

June 8 - Music from Rob Quist: Rob Quist is an award-winning American singer, songwriter, and published poet. He has toured nationally and internationally for over five decades, releasing 15 albums of mostly original music. Quist was the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for the Mission Mountain Wood Band and The Montana Band, and he later formed his band, Rob Quist & Great Northern. Join us for words and music from Quist as he kicks off our summer speaker series at Missouri Headwaters.

June 15 - Cowboy music and authentic storytelling from Philip Page: Philip Page is a singer, songwriter, working cowboy, and saddle maker based in Dillon. He has traveled across the Intermountain West as a storyteller and has played his songs at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. For more than 35 years, Page has taught horsemanship clinics across Montana. He currently runs Page Saddlery and Page Livestock, where he builds saddles for working cowboys, trains, and shows horses. Through cowboy music and authentic storytelling, Page educates audiences about Montana’s rich early history, including exploration, early European settlement, gold exploration, Montana’s prominent figures, and the beauty of Montana’s landscape.

June 22 - Mary Jane Bradbury presents Calamity Jane and Dora DuFran: Mary Jane Bradbury is a historical interpreter and scholar who brings history to life for audiences of all ages. She is an artist in residence for the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls and the Montana Historical Society in Helena.

Join us as Bradbury presents an illustrative depiction of two prominent women of the American West—Calamity Jane and Dora DuFran—and how understanding these two women together sheds new light on life, entertainment, entrepreneurship, and storytelling from the late 19th century.