Billings Montana Side Trips

By Joyce, on October 17th, 2019
Little Bighorn National Park - soldier dress

You don’t have to go too far from Billings Montana for some interesting side trips. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Park One Billings Montana side trip is sixty miles away–The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Park Memorial. It commemorates the spot of General George Armstrong Custer’s famous Last Stand. It portrays the battle not as an individual [Read more …]

What to do in Billings Montana

By Joyce, on October 13th, 2019
Billings train depot

Billings Montana With 110,000 citizens, Billings is Montana’s largest city. It was created by and named for the president of the Northern Pacific railroad who built a key rail stop a few miles outside of Coulter. Although it has long-since disappeared, Coulter was an established town and paddle-wheel steamer stop. The area grew into a [Read more …]

Other Montana Places of Interest

By Joyce, on October 10th, 2019
Gardiner town steet

In our last several blogs, we wrote about numerous places to visit in Montana. These included: Ghost towns such as Virginia City and Nevada City Billings Montana; and Side trips around Billings Montana This blog talks about some of the other places we visited in Montana. Gardiner Montana Gardiner Montana is a small town that [Read more …]

Montana Ghost Towns

By Joyce, on October 9th, 2019
Virginia City handing eplica

Virginia City—Ghost Town Modernized Virginia City Montana was founded in 1863, after the discovery of gold in Adler Gulch. More than 10,000 prospective miners and suppliers flooded the area. Virginia City grew rapidly from settlement to boomtown to a full-fledged city of 5,000 permanent residents and more than 1,200 buildings within a few years. It [Read more …]