Located in the middle of the Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, is Hamilton, the valley’s largest community. Hamilton was founded by copper king Marcus Daly in the late 19th century and named after James W. Hamilton, a Daly employee, who provided the who right-of-way to the Northern Pacific Railway. Marcus Daly and was known as one of…
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Bitterroot Mountain Valley
The Bitterroot National Forest has been occupied by humans for 8,000 years or longer. It is the homeland of the Bitterroot Salish Indians, along with other tribes such as the Kootenai, Pend d’Oreille, Shoshone and Nex Perce. The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1805 was the first recorded contact of Euro-Americans here which accelerated in…
Livingston, Montana
Livingston, Montana is 1 hour to Bozeman Montana, 2 hours to Big Sky, 1 hour from Gardiner, Montana and the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Between Gardiner and Livingston is the 53-mile long Paradise Valley on highway 89 and one of the most breathtaking valleys in the west. Yellowstone River runs thru it, framed…
Twin Bridges, Montana
Twin Bridges, Montana is located 1.5 hours from Bozeman, 2 hours to Yellowstone National Park and 26 miles north of Dillion, Montana on Montana highway 41. This small western town founded in 1864 with a population of 418 dates back to 1805 when Lewis and Clark’s main expedition camped at Beaverhead Rock (now a state…
Big Sky, Montana
Big Sky is located in southwest Montana, 45 minutes from Bozeman, 2 hours from Livingston and 15 miles from Yellowstone National Park. Tucked away at the base of Rocky Mountain range with dense forests and the Gallatin River it is accessible from highway 191 from Bozeman or Yellowstone. Lone Peak Mountain is 11,166 feet in elevation…
Bozeman, Montana
Bozeman is located in southwest Montana 2 hours from Gardiner, Montana, 1 hour from Livingston, Montana and 1 hour from Big Sky, Montana. The population is 45,250, making it the fourth largest city in Montana. In 1864, the town was founded and later incorporated in 1883 by John M. Bozeman who established the Bozeman Trail…
Gardiner, Montana
Gardiner, Montana is 3 hours from Cody, Wyoming, 1 hour thru the breathtaking Paradise Valley to Livingston, Montana, and 5 miles from the north border of Yellowstone National Park. Nestled between Absaroka-Beartooth and the Gallatin Mountain Ranges, Gardiner was the original entrance to Yellowstone Park. This frontier town dates back to the 1830s when the…