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☆ A Slice of Big Sky Country You Won’t See on ‘Yellowstone’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Janie Osborne | Photographs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Recently, western Montana and cities like Bozeman are experiencing a surge in popularity because of the wildly successful drama “Yellowstone” and its prequels “1883” and “1923.”But some of Montana’s most intriguing areas are those that remain untouched by the limelight. The Hi-Line is one of them. It’s the stretch of U.S. Highway 2 that traverses northern Montana for about 650 miles. Remote and vast, this part of Montana is a place where rows of golden wheat fields recede into endless horizons; where a long two-lane highway is colored by grain elevators, railroad cars and century-old homesteading remnants; and where you might drive past a welcome sign that reads: “RUDYARD: 596 Nice People — 1 Old Sore Head!”

Locations: Montana, Bozeman, U.S

☆ Montana Republicans are appealing to anti-California sentiment to pass a slew of bipartisan pro-housing policies
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Montana Republicans are aligned behind zoning reform and other pro-housing policies. And everybody in Montana is asking this question of, you know, how can we keep Montana feeling like Montana?" Preventing a 'California-style housing crisis'Montana's ultra-conservative GOP governor, Greg Gianforte, recently called the housing crisis "probably the number one issue faced by working Montanans." Conservative supporters of pro-housing policies in the state have successfully tied anti-California sentiment to anti-sprawl and pro-housing policies. "The fear is that in 25 years, we're going to have a California-style housing crisis," Cotton said.

☆ Yellowstone Gets New Road After Summer Flood Washes Highway Entrance Away
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Janie Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Now, about four and a half months later, a new highway built on the former stage line has opened to the public. Known as the Old Gardiner Road, it previously consisted of a single lane with few guard rails and was used mainly by bicyclists and occasional four-wheel drive vehicles.

☆ Yellowstone Gets a Lifeline After Flood With Revamped Historic Road
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Jim Carlton | Photographs Janie Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The communities north of Yellowstone National Park that were hurt by a significant flood in June have a new lifeline to the park by way of a 1879 stagecoach line. That flood, which federal officials described as a once-in-a-1,000-years event, caused the Yellowstone River to overflow and destroy sections of the park’s main highway entrance from the north. The shut-off of visitors in communities along that route in Park County, Mont., erased most of their summer business.

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