Bozeman Magazine

Midwest Trip

Steve McGann

Familiar yet exciting, the Interstate 90 run from the benches of northern Wyoming up into the Little Bighorn valley was filled with anticipation: the arrival in Montana, the comfort of home. We made that drive recently after a long road trip through…

Top 10 Out Loud Activities

Missy Glenn

The Gallatin Valley is not only an outdoor recreational paradise—it’s also full of all kinds of “diamond in the rough” activities. As our community develops and grows, it is fun to also see the growth in culture, arts, and…

A New State Park: Judith Landing

Steve McGann

Recently, while researching for an article about our Gallatin Valley Montana State Parks (Missouri Headwaters and Madison Buffalo Jump), I discovered that we have a brand new State Park located in Central Montana. Surely this called for an on the…

Spring Fever

Phil Knight

Spring fever has hit me… in early February. Somehow, with the severe lack of snow and bizarre warmth of this odd winter, it feels all wrong. After forty winters in Montana, I admit I have certain expectations about the season—lots of…

Livingston Fringe Festival

Kevin Brustuen

This fall, a brand-new regional event, The Livingston Fringe Festival will debut September 22nd, and will continue through September 28th.  The Festival brings 12 plays, written by 14 local playwrights and featuring 40 actors, to nine Livingston…

Don’t Miss ArtWeek Park County

The Livingston Depot Center, Danforth Museum of Art, and the Livingston Center for Art and Culture are pleased to introduce ArtWeek Park County, a county-wide celebration of the arts. This partnership is designed to bring our community together…

In Praise of Trees

Kevin Brustuen

Richard Powers, in his 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, says: “You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways. But even now, after an immense journey…

Bar Beat: Sac Bar

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

Cara Wilder

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…