Makoshika State Park occupies more than 11,000 acres of rugged badlands southeast of Glendive, Montana, and takes its name from the Lakota phrase Mako sica, meaning bad land. Known for exposures of the Hell Creek Formation and important dinosaur fossils, it became a state park in 1939 after federal officials declined to make it a national park and Dawson County donated its first 160 acres. Later expansion greatly enlarged the park. Finds from the park and nearby area include Triceratops and Thescelosaurus, including a juvenile Triceratops skull unearthed in 1991. Today it is valued for both paleontology and outdoor recreation.