Epic 4-Day Road Trip Through Montana: Bozeman, Virginia City, & More!

The city of Bozeman is located in Southern Montana. This area has a lot to offer if you're passing through on your way in or out of Yellowstone National Park. In this video, we share with you what those things are and at the end, we reveal our favorites.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Earthquake Lake
2:50 Virginia City & Nevada City
7:05 Ennis, Montana
8:35 Hike to the M
9:33 Museum of the Rockies
11:23 Main Street
13:50 Drinking Horse Hike
16:18 Float the River
18:18 Sculpture Park
19:44 Grizzly Encounter
23:04 Chico Hot Springs
27:55 Big Sky
28:39 Onsel Falls
29:10 Big Sky Resort
30:39 West Yellowstone
33:23 Yellowstone
33:55 Final Thoughts

[@timegan3576]

Bozeman is the nicest city in California. And it’s only a half hour in any direction back to Montana. Also, it will get to twenty below, for a week at a time in December and January.

[@WereintheRockies]

LOL

[@annerichardson9843]

❤❤❤❤loved Playmill!! We also saw singing in the rain last year and loved it so much we are already booked for our trip in 2023! Can’t say enough about playmill!

[@WereintheRockies]

Awesome! Have a great trip.

[@mrsclaussews]

We live in Belgrade, our roots go deep here. We've done regular visits to the Virginia City Players and the Playmill players. Now an historic theater in Bozeman, the Ellen, has been doing very well done plays. And we don't have to drive very far.

[@eliciamccoy3326]

I use to drive an 18 wheeler out of Ogden UT loved it met my best friend there been friends since 1989 nice place. He now lives in Salt Lake City. Stay safe and enjoy your life

[@WereintheRockies]

Thanks!

[@lisadiconti]

Such magnificent scenery. I love Bozeman.

[@ISmellLikeBeefandCheese]

Unfortunately filled with communists

[@debraschneider7437]

Near Three Forks is Headwaters of the Missouri, Lewis and Clark Caverns, Madison Bluff Jumps, etc.

[@horizon42q]

Nice town, hot in summer We love the ride down 191. Quake Lake was interesting to visit.

[@nclare7]

You guys are awesome. Great video. Thanks!

[@WereintheRockies]

You’re welcome!! Thanks for watching

[@goofsaddggkle7351]

So good! Lots to see and do around there I see.

[@WereintheRockies]

Yes, thanks

[@dianeham3158]

Very enjoyable and informative video! Thank you!

[@WereintheRockies]

Thanks Diane!

[@laistephen754]

Our trip to Yellowstone was a good and bad experience. First after getting off the flight at Salt Lake City airport and went to pick up our rental car at NU rental car near the airport, we were scammed by the rental company . The office woman told us the car we rented through Hotwire is not allowed to the state Wyoming where Yellowstone National park located unless we pay more and upgrade our compact car to 4 wheel drive SUV . The price of the upgrade is 410 dollars extra that is double the price of Hotwire listed price. So we are in their hostage because if we don’t pay it we don’t go. Finally we were left with no other choice but agree to pay. To make the story short we enjoyed the whole trip to Yellowstone and the surrounding areas liked The city of Jackson and Grand Teton park. My bad experience did not end there. On our trip back to San Francesco we purposely took the Amtrak instead of flying . That was a big mistake. We boarded the train depot at Salt Lake City ,about 4 hours after departing the station the freight train in front broke down and died on the only track for more 20 hours. So instead of only taking 17 hours trip it took us for a total of 37 hours on a coach seat with no shower or meals. The main complain on this trip is the car rental company NU Rental Company who scammed us 410 dollars . Watch out for this company even though it has the lowest bid in the first sign but you will pay much more in the end.

[@caseyparked]

Great video! Next time you're in Bozeman, you gotta head up to Hyalite Reservoir. It's a nice (manmade) lake surrounded by a huge hiking trail system and beautiful waterfalls.

[@WereintheRockies]

Awesome!! Thanks for the suggestion. Will do so next time

[@Lila21697]

Lived in Bozeman and cannot wait to return

[@WereintheRockies]

We like it there.

[@jak488]

Went to school in Bozeman. Way more beautiful than Missoula ;) Seriously though, great place. You can easily spend 2-3 days in Big Sky, even in the summer. The tram to the top of Lone Mtn is spectacular on a clear day. Beehive Basin hike is one of my favorite day hikes in Montana, although it may be too strenuous for some.

[@WereintheRockies]

Yep, I’ll have to get back there sometime and give myself more time! Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@Lila21697]

Went to Ennis to adopt a cat! Beautiful

[@huha47]

The earthquake of 59 was felt in Bozeman and in the morning I had noticed things in my room had moved around a bit. Myself and a friend had decided not to go on a Boy Scout camping trip which was very close to the epicenter on that weekend. None of my friends were hurt, but they had some wild stories to tell. Ennis has an interesting motor hotel which consists of small individual log cabin like structures, which we stayed at, and our daughter enjoyed that more than being at any other hotel and such as we visited Yellowstone, Bozeman, Helena, Glacier National Park, and Banff, and relatives along the way before returning home to Austria. Hard to imagine that Bozeman only had a population of some 8,000 when I grew up there in the 50s and 60s. The "M" stood for Montana State College before it became MSU, the UM Rivale, which would come to Bozeman to steal the cannon.

[@WereintheRockies]

Thanks for sharing.

[@lisadiconti]

How neat...I've never heard of bear parks.

[@WereintheRockies]

We sure loved watching those bears. They were so playful

[@davezeigler1804]

Ennis has a great breakfast at the general store

[@huha47]

I feel like a storyteller. You will have noticed there's no roof, but at both ends of the pool, one can see the shape where a roof might have covered the length of the pool. There was one there once. We had driven out to Chico for the day, enjoyed swimming, then it was time for us to go back home. No sooner had we left the pool area, walking through the door when the roof collapsed onto the pool. We missed it by inches. There were some injuries, fortunately, no one drowned in that accident. My father had gone back in to help.

[@WereintheRockies]

Wow! What a story.

[@J-Dot73]

We are currently driving from Spokane towards Missoula and we just drove past a very interesting looking mining town - Wallace. Have you ever been there?

[@WereintheRockies]

No, but it’s on the list!

[@J-Dot73]

@@WereintheRockies it looks pretty cool! So many old brick buildings

[@issenvan1050]

In 1999 on Aug. 17, there was a big earthquake in Turkey!

[@valleygirl4161]

Butte has an M too. For Montana Tech.

[@WereintheRockies]

Crazy!!! I guess there's more M's we need to climb too

[@williamsewell6094]

bozeman, missoula, and butte all have M's 😂

[@probebot171]

He's my brother's friend's dad 😂

[@Billw0006]

Thanks for this. Big fan of Montana. Fly into Bozeman a couple of times a year to visit our son in Ennis. MAGA

[@WereintheRockies]

You’re welcome

[@rayman1611]

My brother and his new bride we camped in the valley. Miraculously they survive. I remember feeling the quack in Pocatello ID.

[@WereintheRockies]

Wow