A Travel Guide to Billings, Montana

By William Howard

"A Travel Guide to Billings, Montana" includes the following sections: Introduction, Attractions, Activities, Motels/Hotels, Bed & Breakfast Establishments, RV Parks & Campgrounds, Art Galleries, Museums, Restaurant & Pizza Establishments, Microbreweries, Shopping, Transportation and Essential Services.

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Howard
• Release date: Mar 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370746965

William Howard

William Howard was born and raised in Colorado. He has been on faculty at Western Michigan University and Northern Michigan University. He holds a Doctorate in Special Education and worked in public education for 26 years. He travels often to Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona.

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A Travel Guide to Billings, Montana

William Howard

Copyright 2017 by William Howard

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Table of Contents

Welcome to Billings, Montana

Attractions

Activities

Motels/Hotels

Bed & Breakfast Establishment

RV Parks & Campgrounds

Art Galleries

Museums

Restaurants & Pizza Establishments

Microbrews

Shopping

Transportation

Essential Services

Billings, Montana Memories

Welcome to Billings, Montana

Billings, Montana is located in the south-central portion of the state and is the seat of Yellowstone County. Billings was nicknamed the Magic City due to its rapid growth. With one of the largest trade areas in the United States, Billings is the trade and distribution center for much of Montana east of the Continental Divide, Northern Wyoming and the western portions of North Dakota and South Dakota.

Area attractions include Pompey’s Pillar, Pictograph Cave, Chief Penty Coups Park. Zoo Montana and the Yellowstone Art Museum. You can take a day trip Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Red Lodge Mountain Resort and the Beartooth Highway, which links Red Lodge to Yellowstone National Park.

Billings is in the Yellowstone Valley which is a canyon carved out by the Yellowstone River. Around 80 million years ago, the Billings area was the shore of a sea. The sea deposited sand along its shoreline. Over time, this sand was compressed into stone known as Eagle Stone. Over the last million years, the river carved its way down through this stone to form the canyon walls that are known as the Billings Rimrocks or the