In Pioneer Days This Very Large City Park Was Part of the Original Fort Miles.
"He had slept on that park bench one night on his way through to Bozeman. That's why I didn't recognize that forest yesterday. He'd come through at night, on his way to the college at Bozeman."
This City Park, on the Main Route West Out of Downtown, Miles City MT is the only city park "on the way out of town". This meant my going West on Main Street, which promptly and unavoidably lead to "bad quality" on I-94. From my 1964 Rand-McNally I deduce that this section of I-94 had (prior to 1964) replaced plus totally removes all evidence of the older two-lane Rt12 West out of town. However this free-way was probably (and also just as unavoidably) the route the Narrator traveled. Low quality. Is why there are no descriptions of it in ZMM? Had I read my map more closely, I might have considered Rt59 Northwest, over the Yellowstone River, and turn West along the north side of the river. (Continued next) click here to view many more postcard photos of Miles City.
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