February 2026
My daughter Emilie’s passion for horses and rodeo royalty started at the young age of eight. Growing up in Red Lodge, Emilie loved attending the Home of Champions Rodeo, an action-packed three-day event with traditional parades and a PRCA…
February 2026
Tim Ford
Hopefully, your 2026 is off to a great start! As we progress into the New Year, it’s time to look back at how the real estate market fared in 2025. Overall, the year saw improving inventory, cautious buyer interest, and continued affordability…
February 2026
Rachel Phillips
Walter and Mariam Skeels Cooper and their daughter, Mariam Cooper Bunker, were a fairly typical early Bozeman family. Like most, they experienced their shares of ups and downs. The letters, diaries, and photographs they left behind offer a glimpse…
February 2026
Topher Sedlak
One summer 20 years ago, a group of friends from Minnesota made a Big Sky Country visit. We hung around Bozeman and Hyalite for a few days before a trip up to Glacier and Flathead. While driving down Willson Avenue, an older man in a beat-up truck…
February 2026
Kathleen Johns
Aries (March 21–April 19) The week surrounding February 13 marks a turning point in how you lead and love as Saturn enters your sign. Choose steady devotion over impulsive passion. Red Jasper grounds desire into lasting strength. “I build…
February 2026
Angie Ripple
In the words of the Grateful Dead (RIP Bob Weir)“Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heartYou just gotta poke around”
Bozeman Magazine has been helping locals, newcomers, and visitors poke around this town for the past…
January 2026
Angie Ripple
As we enter into the nineteenth year of publishing a monthly magazine for the community of Bozeman, it is a little hard to believe we’ve been doing it so long. In 2007, with a 10-month old daughter, if you’d told me we would go on to…
January 2026
The Montana State College Ski Carnival
Rachel Phillips
In 1954, the Montana State College Ski Club introduced an event to celebrate the sport they loved, and to boost student morale. Held annually in January or February, the Ski Carnival was a welcome mid-season break for students. Activities and events…
January 2026
Reclaiming Winter in the Rockies
Kathleen Johns
Winter in the Rockies is unlike winter anywhere else. It is long, dramatic, luminous, and deeply influential on our moods and daily rhythm. In places like Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and the high Colorado ranges, winter doesn’t simply arrive…
January 2026
Topher Sedlak
Summertime fills up, like cramming 10 pounds of spuds into a 5-lb bag. There are visitors from other states, there’s maintaining a garden—watering, weeding, maintenance, harvesting, and keeping ahead of bugs, not to mention all the regular…
