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1. Moss Mansion Historic House
914 Division Street
www.mossmansion.com |
What is it? Listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, Moss Mansion was the 1903-built home of the Preston Boyd
Moss family, and has been preserved to capture the family life of
the well-to-do of the era. The house was designed by New York
architect, Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, whose best-known work was New
York's Waldorf Astoria.
Hours of Operation: Call to make reservations
Phone:(406) 256 5100 |
2. Western Heritage Center
2822 Montana Avenue
www.ywhc.org |
What is it? The Western Heritage Center in downtown
Billings, affiliated to the Smithsonian Institution, has a
collection of more than 16,000 artefacts documenting the life,
culture and history of the Yellowstone River Valley. The Center's
constantly changing gallery exhibitions draw around 22,000 visitors
a year.
Hours of Operation: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm; closed on Sundays,
Mondays and legal holidays
Phone:(406) 256 6809 |
3. Yellowstone Art Museum
401 North 27th Street
www.yellowstone.artmuseum.org |
What is it? The popular Yellowstone Art Museum exhibits
contemporary and historic art of the Rocky Mountain West region.
Established in 1984, the museum now contains more than 3,000 works,
including the Virginia Snook Collection, the largest public display
of the drawings, paintings, books and memorabilia of cowboy
illustrator Will James.
Hours of Operation: Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday 12pm to 5pm.
Late opening until 8pm Thursday
Phone:(406) 256 6804 |
4. Zoo Montana
2100 South Shiloh Road
www.zoomontana.org |
What is it? Montana's zoological park and botanical
garden plays host to around 70,000 visitors a year and is one of
the State's most popular tourist attractions, the only zoo within
600 miles (965km) of Billings. The complex covers 70 acres to the
west of the city, exhibiting animals and plants native to the
northern Rockies and high plains, and similar latitudes in Europe
and Asia, in state-of-the-art natural
habitats.
Hours of Operation: Daily 10am to 5pm (1 May to 15 October); 10am to 4pm
(16 October to 30 April). No admissions from one hour before
closing
Phone:(406) 652 8100 |
5. Custer National Forest
Custer Forest Headquarters: 1310 Main Street
www.fs.fed.us/r1/custer |
What is it? The Custer National Forest is scattered
across Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, but the forest
headquarters are in Billings, Montana, and most hiking and camping
is undertaken in the part of the forest located about an hour's
drive to the south of the city. The Custer is the most ecologically
diverse forest in the north of the USA, renowned for its lake and
stream fishing and home to mountain goats, big horn sheep, elk,
muley and white-tailed deer, black bear, cougar and moose. A
popular outing from Billings is to follow the spectacular Beartooth
Scenic Byway. The Beartooth area is also one of the gateways to the
Yellowstone National Park.
Hours of Operation:
Phone:(406) 657 6200 |
6. Yellowstone National Park
www.nps.gov/yell |
What is it? The world's first national park, Yellowstone
was established in 1872 and despite its popularity today, most of
the park still remains an undeveloped wilderness of magnificent
mountain scenery, waterfalls, alpine lakes and rivers. It is
renowned for its geothermal wonders and abundance of wildlife.
Spilling over into Wyoming and Idaho, the enormous park is situated
on top of the Yellowstone Caldera, a collapsed volcanic crater that
was formed 600,000 years ago and holds within it the greatest
geothermic area in the world. This unique environment includes
features such as exploding geysers, thousands of steaming
fumaroles, hot springs and bubbling mud pools, and is where the
park's most famous attraction, the Old Faithful Geyser is to be
found, drawing thousands of tourists to witness its regular
eruption of steaming water. Yellowstone is also home to the largest
concentration of wildlife in lower USA, including grizzly and black
bears, wolves, moose, and large herds of bison and elk. The two
narrow waterfalls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River cut
a striking picture in the yellow-coloured rock that gives the park
its name, with superb views and hiking trails for all abilities.
The large alpine Yellowstone Lake fills the eastern part of the
caldera and offers opportunities for boating and fishing
expeditions in summer. All places of interest are accessible along
the loop roads, but the intensity of visitors in summer, especially
between July and August, means that one needs to hike away from the
main paths to experience the true wilderness of Yellowstone
National Park.
Hours of Operation: The five major visitor centres are open in summer
only, generally from 8am to 7pm daily, except the Albright Visitor
Center, which is the largest and is open year-round with reduced
hours in winter. Of the park's five entrances, the North Entrance
near Gardiner is the only one that remains open year-round to
traffic. Some areas and roads are not accessible during
winter
Phone:(307) 344 7381 |
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Transport -Billings' downtown area is confusing for
visitors, being designed on a grid system with numbered avenues
increasing numerically both to the north and south of Montana
Avenue, and numbered streets crossing it from east to west.
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