Bozeman Magazine

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The Man, The Maid, and The Madam

Sydney Jones

This October, if you’re in the mood for a good meal and a scary story, make your way to a small town just outside of Bozeman. A quick 30-minute drive and you’ll find the gorgeous white Sacajawea Hotel, sitting on Main Street in Three…

La Roche Jaune: A Priceless Montana Watersource

Ken Walcheck

On a sandstone bluff just west of the town of Miles City, a gnarled Mountain Rocky Juniper patriarch stands firmly entrenched in the rocky soil. The juniper has been standing for more than three centuries. To the unperceptive eye, the juniper equates…

Fright Night Inside Deer Lodge Prison

Sydney Jones

On a cold fall night in Deer Lodge, Montana, the Old Montana Prison glows softly from the inside out. You can’t help but notice the enormous brick structure, sitting directly on Main Street in a small town of only 3,000. A chill greets your…

Yellowstone Park Boundaries

Steve McGann

Yellowstone Park forms a rectangle of land in northwest Wyoming. Mostly. The Congressional Act that set aside Yellowstone as a National park listed the boundaries in miles from certain landmarks, then stipulated the meridians thus encountered. The…

2024 Music in the Mountains pt 3

Please join the Arts Council for the second to last night of the 2024 Music in the Mountains free summer concert series. The concerts take place in Len Hill Park in the Big Sky Town Center and is family-friendly and free! Food and beverage vendors…

Vigilante Music Fest

Brian Ripple

One spring day in 1863, six men looking for their next big gold strike found it in Alder Gulch, William Fairweather, Henry Edgar, Thomas Cover, Barney Hughes, Micheal Sweeney, and Harry Rogers left Bannack, attempting to meet and travel with James…

Lost Dakota: Gallatin County, Montana

Steve McGann

At the southern tip of Gallatin County, there is a plot of land of eleven square miles, or about 7000 acres. The eastern border is the 111th meridian west; the northern is the 44 degree, 30-minute parallel north; the southern and western border is…

A Monument to Education and Appreciation

There’s a stately sandstone butte in southeastern Montana that’s locally known as Shiremire Butte. To some folks that might be an appropriate handle, but the name never registered quite right to my own way of thinking.As far as coining an…

Take a Montana Drive This Fall

Steve McGann

Before I lived in Montana, the most vivid recurring image I had of what it would be like involved driving. My mind-picture was of an old bench seat pickup, slowly moving up a long hill on a gravel road through a grassy meadow. There were a couple of…

Kitchen Dwellers NYE Run

Montana’s own galaxygrass favorites, Kitchen Dwellers, will return to Missoula for their biggest New Year’s Eve extravaganza yet, performing an intimate VIP show at the Top Hat on Friday, December 29th, followed by two shows at The Wilma…

Big Sky Arts Council Announces First-Ever Metal in the Mountains

The Arts Council of Big Sky is adding one more event to this summer’s Music in the Mountains free summer concert series. This one, however, will have a different—and louder—flavor than the rest of the music presented so far. On…

Gravel Bar Presents Vigilante Fest 2023

Gravel Bar is pleased to announce the second annual Vigilante Music Festival in Virginia City, MT. Taking place on June 10th in the beautiful setting of Discovery-Ellingsen Park, the festival is an all ages, day long celebration of regional Montana…

Mary Page Marlowe

The Blue Slipper Theater in Livingston presents Mary Page Marlowe, by Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright Tracy Letts, May 5th through 7th and 11th through 14th. Performances on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will begin at 8pm with Sunday…

Spring Break 2023 Staycation Ideas

Angie Ripple

March is not only the month of my birth, but Montana’s allotted month for spring break. With a full week off for local students, families are challenged with how to fill the time. If you’re staycationing, you’re probably looking for…

Mother Nature’s In a Fighting Mood

Angie Ripple

Here we are in Montana, riding a river wave of uncertainty about our summer—uncertainty of what the weather will bring, and whether tourists will still be able to have their fun and keep local commerce happy.Unprecedented amounts of rainfall…

Yellowstone National Park: Year Round Wonderland

Steve McGann

I was excited when I heard that the theme of this month’s issue of Bozeman Magazine would be the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park. The first national park in the world—America’s best idea. Here was a topic I knew…

Top 10 Yellowstone Bucket-List Destinations

Christopher Dyrland-Marquis

For 150 years, Yellowstone National Park has provided retreats for millions—to embrace the great outdoors, study the wonders of nature, and appreciate America’s hard work to preserve natural, sublime landscapes. With two million acres of…

Miracle of America: One of Montana’s Hidden Gems

Colleen Angarone

The wind whistled and wailed, picking up snow piles on both sides of the freeway. My friend Hans’ tiny Honda CR-V rode the waves of sleet, which appeared as a ghostlike entity dancing with unpredictable twists and turns. I clung tightly to the…

The Black Crowes at KettleHouse Amphitheater on Saturday, August 13, 2022

Multi platinum selling rock band, The Black Crowes, will play their hit album, Shake Your Money Maker, in its entirety at KettleHouse Amphitheater on Saturday, August 13, 2022. They’ll be performing other hits from their acclaimed catalog as…

Knowing When To Turn Back

Maisie Bissell

Most of the time when people are told not to do something, they do it anyway. It’s just human nature to put up a challenge and go against the rules. As humans, we don’t truly learn unless we experience the consequences ourselves. If we…