
The scenery in general
We moved here from AZ and I was fascinated that they wash the streets!
The old town is down in a ditch, which leaves us with the East Bench and the West Bench.

Another typical picture from around here.
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At our local airport you can park your airplane or take flying lessons or go downtown for fine dining, live entertainment and shop. The ski lift is just outside of town and so is the golf course with the country club. Also your guests might enjoy a day trip to the Yellowstone Park via our Beartooth Highway. Billings is about an hour north, which is the largest city in Montana and features an international airport. Cody is a spiffy little town in Wyoming and that will be worth a trip as well, they are never short of festivals there, but neither is Red Lodge with many outdoor concerts in summer, Festival of Nations, rodeos, Harley events, mountain biking competitions and the Mountain Man Rendezvous.
We also have a Nature Center that harbors injured wild things that cannot be released because of permanent injuries. You could initiate a day trip to the Pryor mountains that harbor wild horses, or go fly fishing along Rock Creek. Willow Creek is probably heavy with brook trout and you could stock the lake with fish as well. Our museum features a coal mine in the basement, that might be worth a trip too, and we have tennis courts and a basket ball court in town for public use as well. There are pig races in Bear Creek and the historic Round Barn features a theater coupled with a restaurant just north of town. Another fine day trip would be river rafting on the Yellowstone or the Stillwater. In winter we have the Winter Carnival, cross country skiing, snowmobiling and snowshoeing. Downtown Red Lodge is completely restored to it's previous splendor, there are free wagon rides down main street all summer long and we have 300 days of sunshine!
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More of the colorful downtown, which has been restored to its old splendor.

They put those high fronts on the houses to distinguish between the business buildings and the residences.

Our library is out of Brick

The yellow brick road snaking its way to Red Lodge
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