Visit Montana

Montana’s tourism and recreation partners will gather at the Helena Colonial Hotel – Red Lion for 2 days of education, training, discussion, networking, and having fun. We hope you’ll be there.

Really, there are more wintry gatherings and galas than we could possibly list in one email–so pick a weekend, pack your parka and find yourself some fun. Served chilled, of course.

With its endless miles of ski-able terrain, its serene snow-covered national parks, and its bizarre winter festivals, winter is one of the best times to visit Big Sky Country.

This week’s moment in nature takes us to Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Montana to see the moose.

Today Lewis and Clark wouldn’t recognize most of their route from St. Louis to the Pacific. But there’s one place they’d know in a heartbeat: a 149-mile stretch of the Missouri River in north-central Montana. It still contains the "scenes of visionary enchantment" the explorers found in 1805, where rugged sandstone canyons meet the river, then climb to a seemingly limitless prairie full of life.

Montanans Share Ideas and Aspirations for More Tourism Success at Strategic Planning Sessions Across the State

In that spirit of exploration, here are adventures to check off your list in 2013.

We say: try them all.

This cyclic rhythm is what keeps Polebridge and the North Fork alive – the place, the people, the river, the critters. Like the bears, there are elements of life here that possess a need – a physical and psychic need – to hibernate so they can be restored.

2013 Montana Tourism Conference – March 24-26 in Helena