10 Great Things to do in Missoula, Montana!

Missoula is a fun city in Montana. If you're driving through while heading to Glacier National Park, you may want to plan to stay and explore the town. In this video, we talk about Caras Park, the Smoke Jumpers Museum, and other cool things.
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Chapters:
0:15 Intro
0:43 Caras Park
2:04 Carousel
2:47 Hike the "M"
3:59 Smoke Jumpers Museum
5:05 Minor League Baseball
7:02 Museum of Elk
7:18 Chat With a Local
8:04 Eat & Drink
9:47 Adventures
11:02 Sidetrips
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[@westfork]

Never ever heard it called the Clark River, since it's name is: The Clark Fork, or the Clark Fork of the Columbia River.

[@WereintheRockies]

Ahh, thanks for the correction!

[@sandraelsmaterialoblivion7201]

Missoula resident here - good place to live and short distance to all kinds of adventures....if you are from California and want to move here, sorry, we are all filled up, I hear North Dakota is nice

[@mrnobody5381]

Do you have any room for deep red people fleeing blue states. I mean is there a test i could take? My state recently was completely taken over by dems. and it is fast becoming California. Everyone i know that can move, is moving. The people moving into the area are all democrats. All i want is god, guns, and a decent community of right minded people. No degenerates, you know who i am talking about.

[@thebigskyguy]

Idaho wants Californians

[@shannonlrooney]

I just moved from there. I miss it sooooo much. I am happy where I am but I will be back often to visit. It’s the best place!! Clean, beautiful, friendly people. Great energy did I say beautiful??

[@cjboales6547]

Thank you so much for this…we will be summering in Missoula this summer. This showed me some things I can do on my own as well as some activities I can share with family if they come to spend some time with us! I enjoy your channel and have saved quite a few of you videos to utilize as we travel from Texas to Missoula and back home at the end of the summer. Thanks for all your hard work in putting these together!

[@WereintheRockies]

Wonderful! Glad we can help. Have a great time.

[@AydenLovesMilk]

13:09, I KNEW IT WASNT A DREAM! I must’ve went here with my dad when I was maybe 4 or 5. I remember seeing a huge rainbow lollipop but that’s really it, I thought it was a dream at first but.. not after seeing this. I panned for gold at some point, I can’t remember if it was after or before but I remember finding a crystal, it was small but still cool, I don’t have it anymore (obviously), but I loved it anyway.

[@WereintheRockies]

Great memory.😊

[@michelleshields8350]

I cannot wait to move there with my boys and work as a nurse!

[@AlexRR99999]

Can’t believe you wouldn’t mention the University. One of America’s most beautiful campuses, and lots of things for the Public to do….

[@carrywolf9714]

A pretty shitty school and a far cry from its past.

[@zion___entertainment]

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the information you share. We look forward on returning back to Montana in September to visit.

[@lizallison324]

Great information 👍

[@LLOriginal]

As someone from here.. I've done all of these things. Super awesome and on point! 👏💯💖 My grandma sent me this. Great job guys!

[@WereintheRockies]

Thanks and welcome

[@AydenLovesMilk]

The parks.. holy.. yes, the parks, I loved those parks, they were my favorite parks and they still are, the dragon one was my favorite, there was so many cool gadgets to mess round with and overall I had a great time playing there.

[@sam_l0ves_cats_]

I live there and it's FREEZING here I've been to Helena to visit my grandparents, my nostrils were frozen

[@WereintheRockies]

Yes it can get cold!

[@elisahayes7855]

As someone born and raised there I can say every thing in this video is completely true all of them are amazing I been to all of those many many times.

[@SoundCastle00]

Do you still live there? If so...how much is a one bedroom? On the low end.....lol

[@elisahayes7855]

@@SoundCastle00 Yes i still live in Montana its great. tbh i still live with my parents cuz im in my teens.

[@elisahayes7855]

@@SoundCastle00 also for my dads rent for his apartment it Like 1000-1500 a month its crazy how much stuff is here

[@debbieannsmith8962]

Awesome ‼️

[@WereintheRockies]

Thanks 🤗

[@AydenLovesMilk]

THE BIG DIPPER! OH HOW I LOVE THAT PLACE, I loved their ice cream, the last flavors I had there was the huckleberry flavor, it was amazing, I’m tearing up talking about this stuff.

[@btbt2295]

I’m glad you enjoyed Missoula. Born and raised here and I can’t see myself ever leaving.

[@WereintheRockies]

Awesome! And thanks for not correcting me on the Clark fork river. Lol!

[@AydenLovesMilk]

Same, I left because.. well.. it’s a long story but I loved my first 6 years living there.

[@Orangeshebert]

Well done. Thanks

[@WereintheRockies]

You're welcome!

[@timberghosts6282]

I don't know about gold...but Phillipsburg is known for the sapphire gems! Either up at the mine or in town at store.

[@elisahayes7855]

For sure do by Butte Montana is go to Lewis and Clark caverns! Its amazing

[@AydenLovesMilk]

Hiking the M.. I lived in Lolo so we hiked the L, I would always complain that my feet hurt when I climbed with my mom, it’s so nostalgic..

[@LLOriginal]

Montana in the summer is the best season in the world 😎💖🌞

[@johnjaco5544]

All 4 weeks of it

[@AydenLovesMilk]

14:01, this place looks familiar and I might have went to it, I’m not completely sure but I went to something* like it with my family.

[@AydenLovesMilk]

2:09 Oh my god, I can’t even explain how important this is to me. We would go here all the time when I was younger. I was always too small to grab the chips so my mom tried to grab them for me. It was an amazing experience and you’re brings back so many memories.

[@WereintheRockies]

We're glad we could take you on a trip down memory lane. 😊

[@AydenLovesMilk]

Me and my family would go hunt for wild huckleberries, it was the funnest thing for 5 year old me, we would make pies out of them, great memories.

[@donames1438]

Fort Missoula and the campus of the University of Montana is very beautiful (go Bobcats!).

[@yourmom9758]

The University of Montana is the Grizzlies.

[@donames1438]

@@yourmom9758 Correct. I am an MSU alumni who thinks U of M has a beautiful campus!

[@WereintheRockies]

Yes, I figured that’s what you meant. Montanans wouldn’t confuse the two. Lol Go Weber State! Haha

[@rhondahankins4026]

The little town of Superior is also called the bobcats. 😁

[@elisahayes7855]

GRIZ! instead lol I GO GRIZ

[@rachelgallagher6214]

✌❤ from Montana

[@mikemckenna8530]

Can't leave out a Montana Grizzlies Football game!

[@WereintheRockies]

True!

[@tigercenis1758]

It’s the Clark fork river!

[@WereintheRockies]

Lol, yes I’ve been corrected multiple times!

[@politenessisquay648]

You can rent the doll house in Garnett ANS do overnights

[@thebigskyguy]

Clark Fork River

[@AlexRR99999]

Clark Fork of the Columbia River, usually just referred to as The Clark Fork….

[@politenessisquay648]

Lewis and Clark Caverns

[@politenessisquay648]

It’s the Clark fork river

[@WereintheRockies]

Thank you.

[@politenessisquay648]

I’m watching this lol 😂 because I’m from missoula montana but I live in New Zealand 🇳🇿 and can’t get home coz of Covid lol 😂 So I Appreciate your videos but there’s so much more do you have yet to do.. Summer‘s only half the fun you seriously need to do all four seasons there’s so much different stuff depending on the season!

[@WereintheRockies]

True! So many great things to do in Montana in general.

[@politenessisquay648]

Lolo hot springs … Lolo peak, guys steak house.

[@politenessisquay648]

Rocky Mountain elk foundation

[@yourmom9758]

Huckleberries grow in the mountains and people go and pick them by hand. No one has been able to cultivate and grow them.

[@scottmoxie]

Not true. They cultivate them and grow them in Idaho

[@yourmom9758]

@@scottmoxie They pick them in Idaho, show proof that they farm/cultivate them.

[@garymittelstadt7821]

Sorry folks, they shut down Darby Logger Days a couple years ago.

[@WereintheRockies]

:( I thought that might be the case but I didn’t know if it was Covid temporary shut down or not. Too bad to hear about that.

[@johnulmer6715]

Best thing to do in Missoula is get on I90 and leave. Montana is the best and Missoula drags it down. Montana native here!

[@kellyolsen9741]

Next year I'm moving back home to Missoula. I'm in utah and hate it. Rude people in utah. I know, I've been here 40 years ( too long).

[@MyName-mc7lv]

PS your full of it all across the border

[@MyName-mc7lv]

The (M) is 1 1/2 miles the top is 2 miles and domt forget Bloody tourist the L mountain is 1.4 miles to the pick so please people like the ONE who has done this video do (100%) and the lag work of it all before doing a 100% federal Lie of cort of different of hike & walking of x Distance frome point A-B and so on. Please do so to all whom it can consider all across the planet.

[@corinnelynn333]

What?? I can’t decipher your comment.

[@elisahayes7855]

ITS CLARK FORT RIVER!!! it annoying when people say it wrong

[@WereintheRockies]

Ok! Lol.

[@ryandickinson7901]

I mean, I know it's a auto correct but it's pretty funny typing fort instead of fork. Saying wrong name and then saying it's annoying when people say it wrong

[@johnjaco5544]

8 months a year of crappy weather. Summers filled with forest fires smoke Lots of homeless Mentally deranged drug addicts It's not all it's cracked up to be .

[@carrywolf9714]

OK now Imagine that you’re a black couple. Hmmmmm…. Now imagine that all your explorations are driven by white and middle class sensibilities