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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A decades-old fixture of Helena, the Staggering Ox was recently voted by MAXIM Magazine* as creating one of the top 3 sandwiches in the country (for “The Nuke”.) Our little stop off proved more to us than that they know their way around the kitchen. We found they know the way around the whole experience of people dropping by for food, fun and an array of stimu-tainment ranging from musical to visual with many stops in between.
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In 1988 a man had a vision. It wasn’t of sugar plums, as you might expect, but of an authentic, old-timey carousel ride in his hometown of Missoula, Montana. Spoiler alert: he made his vision big enough for a whole city and now they have A Carousel for Missoula, it’s a carousel like none other in the world.
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To clarify, a dirt devil tour is similar to a whirlwind tour, except a little smaller and a whole lot dustier. We saddled up our four-door pony and headed east towards the famous gold-chocked westerly hills of “them thar” fame. We were bound for Montana and as soon as we crossed the border we found us a town of decent size for our first stop.
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