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Reviews
 No Trip Complete Without Sleepover in the Slammer
Sunday, August 10 @ 23:00:00 PDT
Throughout our 5-plus weeks in Montana, we’ve stayed everywhere from mountain top resorts to the lows you scrape a rung below the Motel 6, and no place left an impression on us quite like the 1880s Ranch in Anaconda, Montana. It wasn’t just a neat location, it was handily the best lodging experience in all of Montana.
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 Deer Lodge Car Museum Floors Parents, Kids, Cars Alike
Thursday, July 31 @ 02:00:00 PDT
For those of you late to our Perplexing games, let me take you back some years and tell you that, until just last year, we were a family of journalists entrusted with the noble duty of testing out cars for the media. It wasn’t an easy job, but the benefits were amazing. So I think I speak with the bare minimum authority when it comes to cool cars, and this place had them all over.
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 Elk Country Visitor Center Welcomes Amerigrants
Wednesday, July 30 @ 01:00:00 PDT
I’m not familiar with the country of Elk, but I’m not familiar with my own country either, no matter how much of it I’ve traveled, so I won’t try to make like I’m some geographical prodigy or anything. I’ll just tell you that we didn’t need passports to visit Elk Country, and the visitor’s center was worth ten times the suggested donation, and even that was only a suggestion.
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 Sapphires in Them Thar Hill For Keepsies if You Find ‘Em
Monday, July 28 @ 01:00:00 PDT
One of the must-see attractions in Montana is the Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine. Don’t take my word for it, they’ve been featured everywhere from National Geographic to the Discovery Channel, and those are tough customers to please. It’s a short drive from Helena, and worth your visit, even if you aren’t an aspiring prospector.
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 Take a Wong Turn to See the Old Fire Tower
Saturday, July 26 @ 08:00:00 PDT
If you’re ever in up-city Helena, Montana and think you might be lost, there’s a good chance you are, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t good things to see. By “up-city” I really mean “up-hill” and I know because even though we found a cool little park to revive us, we were already worn down by our uphill trek.
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 Deer Lodge Has Prison Museum Genre Locked Down
Friday, July 18 @ 03:00:00 PDT
Any traveler of the Interstate-90 corridor through Montana will surely see signs for the Deer Lodge Prison Museum Complex, assuming they have eyes in their heads and some amount of brain connected to it. Personally I can’t read, but I have people who do that for me so I was keenly aware these billboards existed from the time I hit the state line, and so I count myself in the know. The complex is much more than that, but the Prison Museum is the heart, and if you miss it, you’re really missing it.
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 Seeley Lake A Fine Stop Off Near Nowhere’s Middle
Thursday, July 17 @ 02:00:00 PDT
If you’re driving through Montana and you want to see something interesting, the first thing you have to do is pull off the highway. If that doesn’t satiate your appetite, you may need to stay off the highway and start cutting around the state, as we did. That isn’t exactly how we found the historic city of Seeley Lake, but it was a fair enough excuse to be so far off the beaten path that we ourselves needed to beat.
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 Grizzly Encounter Has Bears On Display, Specifically Two
Wednesday, July 16 @ 03:00:00 PDT
When you’re driving east from Bozeman, Montana, the first real attraction you’ll find along Interstate-90 is quite a grizzly encounter. I’m not passing judgment, that’s what it’s called, the Grizzly Encounter. They buy billboards by the boatload, but don’t tap into the state tourism web site, so it’s an easy one to miss if you don’t have eyes while driving, but it’s there nonetheless.
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 Fairmont Hot Springs Doesn’t Disappoint, Appoint
Tuesday, July 15 @ 10:00:00 PDT
Of all the hotels, motels, cabins and lodges that boast their goods across the Montana touristscape, few do so with as many claims to demi-fame as the Fairmont Hot Springs. It’s a historic site conveniently located along Interstate-90 (near Anaconda, with highway billboards for miles around), and it really is a historic hot springs. From there, however, don’t get your hopes up too high.
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 Mountain-Sized Park Slide Best Reported from Safe Distance
Friday, July 11 @ 15:00:00 PDT
The town of Anaconda in Montana has tarnished a bit since the close of the world class smelter operation some years back. The classic homes are still there, and its history is richer for the journey, but today tourists make up a good part of the city’s plan. That’s why they built the Copper Chute Slide, however, I can’t help but think, "Smelter? that’s a funny word."
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