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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Old Town Red Lodge has been restored and offers fine dining, live entertainment and interesting boutiques. 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. Our museum features a coal mine in the basement, that might be worth a trip too, and we have tennis courts and a basketball 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 them as business buildings as opposed to residences.
Because Old Town burned so often in the olden days, an ordinance was released that all public building must be out of stone. Our Carnegie library here is out of brick.
The road snaking its way from Luther back to Red Lodge
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