Summer In Red Lodge, Montana
Red Lodge
With a mid-high slope of 126 spread across a generous 160 acres, Red Lodge Mountain Golf Course has enough challenging terrain to keep you on your toes. Add to that several lakes, lots of creek crossings, the occasional July snowstorm, and a neighborhood moose or deer wandering across your fairway, and a day out on the Red Lodge links never feels like the same old thing.
The course opens to the public soon after the spring snow melts, usually in mid-May, and the season runs through Mid-October. Call ahead or just come up to the clubhouse–impromptu tee times rarely require a wait.
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary
615 2nd Street East
Red Lodge, Montana 59068
(406) 446-1133
MT Highway 212
Red Lodge to Cooke City
The Beartooth Highway has been called “the most beautiful drive in America,” by late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt and if you have made this drive, you will agree!
Before you start your drive, check to make sure the road is open. At this elevation, a summer snowstorm can shut it down. To prepare for a summer opening, the road crews generally start clearing with snow plows in April with a target opening of Memorial weekend.
If you are starting your drive in Red Lodge, follow MT-Highway 212 to the Beartooth Highway. There are many places to hike, picnic, and the photography is amazing. Cooke City is a great place for lunch or dinner and local artisan goods can be found
Winter in Red Lodge
Red Lodge is just a special place in Montana. It has this beautiful small-town charm with classic old buildings that, in the winter, look like you are inside a postcard. Great lodging, great food, and lots to do.
Red Lodge Mountain
305 Ski Run Road
Red Lodge, Montana 59068
(406) 446-2610
6 Chairlifts
2 High-Speed Quads
1 Triple Chairlift
3 Double Chairlifts
1 Magic Carpet
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Red Lodge Mountain is Montana Skiing, Pure and Simple. No lift lines, no attitude, no big prices.
Remember when ski vacations were awesome? When you’d ditch the parents at the top of the first lift and spend the whole day pushing your own limits–a little faster, a little steeper, through trees a little bit tighter?
Red Lodge Mountain has always had its own kind of magic. In part, it’s the small-town attitude, the no-wait lifts, and the value-priced lift tickets. But everyone who’s stood at the top of Grizzly Peak, looking west to the deep couloirs of Cole Creek, or east to the untracked paradise of Barriers, or straight down the 2 1/2 mile cruiser run of Lazy M knows, it’s more than any of that.
It’s riding the lift with locals who want to get to know you. It’s knowing the kids (or parents) are fine–wherever they are. It’s pausing halfway down Latigo, with views of the limestone palisades below and the Crazy Mountains beyond, and knowing without a doubt that “Right now, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.” It’s magic… And we’ve still got it.
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary
615 2nd Street East
Red Lodge, Montana 59068
(406) 446-1133
Hours
Saturday – Sunday
10am – 4pm
Adults $9
Kids 4-12 $4
Kids 3 & Under Free
Seniors $6
Military $6
The Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary (YWS) has been in existence since 1987 when a group of concerned citizens took over the Red Lodge Zoological Society and founded the Beartooth Nature Center (BNC). The BNC’s initial mission back in 1987 was the same as is to this day:
Providing lifelong sanctuary to non-releasable native wildlife and sharing a message of conservation and education.
Lions Park is the location for ice skating and ice hockey in Red Lodge. Night skating is going on this winter! Warming hut onsite. Skate rentals are available at the Ski Station.
Red Lodge Nordic Ski Center
Aspen Ridge Ranch
Winter Nordic Trails
Summer Hiking Trails
Summer Horse Trails
Mountain Biking Trails
For many years we’ve enjoyed skiing the well-groomed trails at Red Lodge Nordic Center at the foot of the spectacular Beartooth Mountains in south-central Montana. Many of our children learned to ski here. When we were skied out and needed a rest, there were always a warm fire, friendly conversation, and cookies in the yurt.
In April of 2002, a bunch of friends, neighbors, ski bums, and others who didn’t have anything else to do in their spare time got together to help. We formed BRTA — Beartooth Recreational Trails Association, not only to keep our favorite cross-country ski area alive, but also to work together on our shared vision of a non-motorized trail network along the foothills of the Beartooths.
Our mission statement is simple…. to promote non-motorized trails along the Beartooth Front.