VAUGHN, Montana Community Information

Vaughn is twelve miles west of Great Falls and named for Robert Vaughn, the author of Forty Years on the Frontier. Vaughn came to Montana in 1860. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)

Visit First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, formerly known as Ulm Pishkun and Visitor Center to see what is believed to be one of the largest buffalo kill sites in the United States. Though not actually part of the Lewis and Clark route, Lewis described in great detail these buffalo kills, and First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park gives visitors a way to see what Lewis described in his journal. There are many public fishing access areas along Frontage Road, and it is a popular place for river floaters to start their floats on the Sun River.The Sun River begins in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and flows southeast to Great Falls where it meets the Missouri River.

Vaughn is also not far from Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge covers 12,383 acres on the western edge of the Great Plains. The lake is actually a 5,000-acre shallow marsh in a closed basin created by the last continental glacier to occupy the area. The refuge lands support a great variety of water birds with both nesting and migration habitat.