Manhattan, MT is located 20 minutes west of Bozeman with the beautiful backdrop of the Bridger Mountains. If you want to eat where the locals eat, stop in at Sir Scotts Oasis. This steakhouse is one of the best in Montana.
Virginia City Players, Virginia City, MT
A must see in Virginia City, MT is the Virginia City Players. It takes place in the historic Opera House and is one of the oldest continuing summer-stock theater operating west of the Mississippi, continues to entertain visitors just as its predecessors’ performances for the miners did more than a hundred years ago.
The Virginia City Players only perform during the summer and reservations are generally required.
History of the Virginia City Players
The first theater company in Montana was formed in Virginia City in the 1800’s. They called themselves the Amateur Dramatic Association and performed comedic plays and recitations of famous works, such as Poe’s “Raven.” Their programs led with the quote, “ Ours is the land and age of gold, and ours the laughing time” and ended with the quote, “Old Times will end our story,- But no time, if we end well, will end our glory.”
In the summer of 1948, Dori and Larry Barsness, along with Larry’s brother, Jack Barsness, visited Virginia City. In the evening they went to the old Brewery where someone was playing the piano and Larry joined in singing the songs of Gilbert and Sullivan. Charles Bovey, who had recently started work restoring the town of Virginia City, happened to be at their table. He was a great Gilbert and Sullivan fan and soon devised the idea to create a summer theatre in the town with Barsness’s help. The three men agreed to create a show for the upcoming Miner’s Convention and within two weeks they wrote and rehearsed a half hour melodrama called “Clem, the Miner’s Daughter”, found four more company members, and created costumes. They fashioned a platform stage in the Bale of Hay Saloon and printed a program that read “SHOWS FRI SAT MAYBE SUN”. The show was a success and led to the formation of the Illustrious Virginia City Players.
The Opera House was originally called The Old Stone Barn because it was converted from a livery stable into a replica of a 19th Century Theater. The raked floor and the “pit” for the Cremona weren’t added for several years. From the first, the Barsness’s insisted on authenticity of presentation, from costumes to staging. Only 19th Century scripts were considered and were always presented “straight” and not as “mellodramy” or “take-offs” of the traditional style. The success of the Players through the years has more than proven the contention that such plays are more entertaining when not exaggerated.
Today, the Illustrious Virginia City Players is the oldest continually running summer stock theatre company in the Northwest. Although the company has passed through a handful of directors over the years, the Virginia City Players has remained a professional theatre company that recruits professional grade performers from all over the United States. Many former players have gone on to perform on television, in film and on Broadway! So sit back, relax and enjoy as the Illustrious Virginia City Players take you back in time!
Information from the Virginia City Players
Discovery Ski Area, Philipsburg, Montana
Discovery is a family resort with an emphasis on great skiing, a fun atmosphere and friendly service. Discovery Ski Area opened mid December and is currently fully operational. This is an area which generally receives plenty of powder and has many groomed trails.
Details
Lifts: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Backside Lifts: 10:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Cafe: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tap’er Lite Bar – 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm.
Ticket Office: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Rental Shop: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Half Day Tickets – 12:30 p.m.
Lift Ticket Prices
Adult Full Day – 13+ $46
Adult Half Day – $36
Child 12 & Under $24
Senior 65 & over (ID required) – $34
Easy Chair – $12
Follow this link to purchase tickets
Located immediately above the day lodge, this area is completely lift served. Here, you’ll find gently sloping green runs, cruisers as wide as the Montana sky, the Pentecost Freestyle Terrain Park, and a black diamond or two just for kicks.
Off the Granite Chair, you can step it up a notch (or three) with steep runs groomed to velvety smoothness and mogul fields that test your thighs and nerves. The fall lines and views are utter perfection.
Limelight
For hardcore steeps, Limelight is it. This north-facing area is true double black with treed slopes, narrow chutes and virtual free-falls that give way to fields of powder. You’ll think you’ve dropped into a Teton Gravity Research film.
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Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park
See one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world, a legacy of the legendary Anaconda Copper Company.
The old Anaconda Copper Company smelter stack, completed in 1919, is one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world at 585 feet. The inside diameter is 75 feet at the bottom, tapering to 60 feet at the top. In comparison, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.
The stack dominates the landscape like the company once dominated the area’s economic life. Since the smelter closed in 1980, the stack has become a symbol of the challenges that face communities dependent on finite resources.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the stack may be viewed and photographed only from a distance. Interpretive signs that detail its history are located in the viewing site near Goodman Park.
SEASON AND HOURS
Park
Open daily all year
Daylight hours
LOCATION
100 Smelter Road
Anaconda, MT 59711
Location/Map
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