Ekalaka is the seat of Carter County 112 miles southeast of Miles City on Hwy 7 near Custer National Forest.
Its Carter County Museum features many fossils, artifacts and prehistoric specimens, including the nearly complete skeleton of an Anatotitian copei, or duck-billed dinosaur. Nearby Medicine Rocks State Park was once a place of "big medicine," where Indian hunting parties conjured up magical spirits. Wind and water have sculpted soft sandstone into unusual forms.