Since 2008, Carter G. Walker has been crisscrossing Montana and Wyoming in pursuit of the best places to hike, stay, eat, learn, and explore. In her Moon guidebooks — including the most recent, Moon Yellowstone to Glacier National Park Road Trip (Moon Travel, 2023) —...
“We’re not mad geniuses, that’s for damn sure. We just know what we like and what we feel dignified in producing. And also what we’re good at.” On a recent Wednesday morning, two of the three owners of Brasserie Porte Rouge sat in the filtered light...
Most music aficionados don’t think of Montana — let alone Havre, Montana — as a hotbed of sonic Americana, but Dave Martens is changing that view. Martens is a Havre native, a pedal steel player, and the curator of a music archive he calls Lost...
Lane Timothy rekindled his love of painting when, after years of mainstream commercial success, he realized he needed a change. What he needed was Montana. In this return home to find himself, he would leave slick magazine covers and photo shoots to dig into his...
Architecture Reid Smith Architects Construction Schlauch Bottcher Construction Interior Design Mimi Snowden Design On a 1,000-acre site east of Manhattan, Montana lies a quintessential Western ranch house. It’s a site that borders the trout waters of the Gallatin River. A creek, also good for fishing, wanders through the property, and an...
The antique mall below Last Chance Gulch in Helena, Montana is full of temptations. Myriad treasures fill the rooms, many beyond price. An enormous glass bowl full of colorful matchbooks draws my eye. Atop them lies a tattered brown book. About the size of a...
As I detour from Interstate 90 and drive down the rural road toward Fishtail, Montana, my daily concerns diminish to distant contours in the rearview mirror, and my focus turns to the colorful frame ahead. Like scenes in a motion picture, images from the road can...
On a late summer morning in southern Idaho, our campground neighbors hang a “Happy Birthday” banner from the awning of their trailer. They are the kind of empty nesters I aspire to be; tanned and fit, they began the day kayaking in the lake and...
Each month on the cusp of the full moon, Mark Paulson and about two dozen other people attend a regularly scheduled business meeting in Kalispell, Montana. Then, they move to the parking lot, get out their telescopes, and look up. As the president of the...
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is well known for deep snow and long, steep ski runs, but recently the summer season has rivaled the winter for big mountain adventures. The newly expanded via ferrata, offering guests an outstanding climbing experience with 15 different routes above 9,000...