Missouri River — Local services in Fort Pierre

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 km2), which includes parts of ten U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. Although nominally considered a tributary of the Mississippi, the Missouri River above the confluence is much longer and carries a comparable volume of water. When combined with the lower Mississippi River, it forms the world's fourth longest...

I'd like to start off by saying I'm from an anonymous but competing river town. That said, I'd like to extend my respect to the Missouri River for it's extensive length and water supplying ability. Congratulations are in order as well, for edging out the Mississippi, as the longest in the U.S. I'm sure it gets old hearing about the Mighty Mississippi, ol Miss, old man River and all the other sobriquets, while they saddle you with insults such as Old Muddy. You've shown tremendous composure as well as versatility as you run first north then east then south. Who does that? Youre a true...

A true Montana gem, teaming with historical value and recreation opportunities. The Missouri River originates on the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains at Three Forks, Montana as the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin Rivers converged. The river is cold and clean when it leaves Three Forks. As the river meaders through Montana it takes on numerous other creeks and rivers to become muddy or silty before it reaches North Dakota. Depending where you are at on the river, one can catch sturgeon, paddle fish, trout, channel catfish, sauger and numerous...