The Fort Peck Dam

We decided to visit the Fort Peck Dam which Penny and I had visited seven years ago on our way to Ottawa. It is named after a Colonel Peck who was in charge of Fort Peck during the trading days. This dam was approved by Congress in 1927 but the funding did not come through until President Franklin Roosevelt enabled it as part of the New Deal. It was “shovel ready” - a huge dam on the Missouri River originally designed to prevent downstream flooding. Later Hydro Electric generation was added. The weather was damp but we did manage a short bicycle ride. There is an excellent information and museum center run by the Corps of Engineers.