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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Fortunately, we've got all kinds of plans for all kinds of pleasures: take a moment to browse through the opportunities that await you in Billings.

A Calamity Jane Stomping Ground Tour

Timeframe: 1-2 Hours

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: Offered year round w/hotel pick-up - She lived her life so recklessly... fact or fiction? Come and find out for yourself. Tour historic homes and business districts, Indian Burial Ground and Boothill Cemetery.

Agri-Tour with Ms. Jody

Timeframe: Half Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: Since the early 1930’s Billings has been known for its premier livestock markets. Tour the Ag Hot Spots in Billings and learn firsthand about this lucrative industry.

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Battle of the Little Bighorn Tour

Timeframe: Year round, 6 hours

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: The Battle of the Little Bighorn tour includes entrance fees, hotel or campground pick up in the Billings or Hardin area, and no host lunch. Take in sites like Reno/Benteen Hill, Indian encampments, Last Stand Hill, and so much more. Battle of the Little Bighorn / a Custer and Sitting Bull story. A native Montana historian is your guide for this battle of two cultures.

Beartooth Highway Tours

Timeframe: Full Day

Planning: Reserve guided tours ahead. Recommended checking road conditions for self-guided tours.

Description: This tour available June to October. Beartooth Highway climbs to an astounding 10,947 feet above sea level. Since its completion in 1936, the highway has awed visitors with it astonishing views of one of the most rugged and wild areas in the lower 48 states. This day trip gives you the experience of viewing snow-capped peaks, snow fields, glaciers, and plateaus blanketed with tiny wildflowers. A stop in the historic mountain village of Red Lodge offers shopping and foods to represent the many ethnic groups that traveled to mine coal, ranch and farm. Call or visit the website for reservations or more information.

Beartooth Pass Adventure Tour

Timeframe: Full day tour.

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: Thrill, rush, and adrenaline is what you can experience when you climb into the rugged 4x4 open air jeeps. Passengers will experience the Big Sky Country and its wildlife where every tree, wild flower and stream dances with the grace of the Old West. Look forward to the return over Beartooth Pass down into Red Lodge.

Billings City and Historic Attractions

Timeframe: Full Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: A guided tour of the Moss Mansion sets you up to experience a pre-arranged lunch followed by other historic stops including Chief Joseph Historic Site, the Yellowstone County Museum, Yellowstone Kelly’s Grave/Boothill Cemetery and Pictograph Cave State Park.

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Billings Horseback Riding

Timeframe: Trips can be enjoyed in as little as a two hour ride minutes from downtown Billings to a multi-day trail ride out of town.

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: Enjoy many different riding options for everyone from beginner to expert. Along the banks of the Little Bighorn River, horseback riding is an enjoyable way to explore and experience the western outdoors. From motorcoach groups to small traveling groups, these horse rides are an enjoyable way for all to view the majestic outdoors in Montana’s Big Sky Country. Transportation can be provided from Billings, Montana. Rides are available near the historic site of Custer’s Last Stand, through the Pryor Mountains, and so much more. Beginners will be given a quick lesson by a guide so that they can start, stop, turn, and ride a horse.

Billings Tours

Timeframe: 1-2 Hours

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: Call or visit the website for reservations or more information.

Billings: Then and Now

Timeframe: Half Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: This fun and informative city tour takes you to places of historical beginnings and nostalgic memories. Learn how these places contributed to Billings as we know it today. Includes a self-guided tour of the Yellowstone Art Museum and a deliciously catered lunch.

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Distinctly Western Breakfast w/ Entertainment and The Battlefield

Timeframe: Full Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: Enjoy the magnificent landscape, delicious food, a bit of country and live entertainment! Ultimately, take in the Little Bighorn Battlefield national monument.

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Exploring Historic Montana Avenue

Timeframe: Half Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: Start at the Western Heritage Center and enjoy the “Heart of Art” in Billings. Featuring studios, art galleries, unique gift shops, handmade jewelry, authentic Native American beadwork and western memorabilia. Lunch served at the McCormick Café.

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Floating Island & Nibbling Thru Billings

Timeframe: Half Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: Learn and appreciate the scientific world of BioHaven Floating Islands and how we can be good stewards of ponds and waterways. Then, nibble your way through specialty and locally owned eateries. Have a light breakfast before this tour!

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Hellroaring Jeep Adventure Tour

Timeframe: Full Day Tour

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: The Beartooth Mountain Range rises to 9,500 feet above sea level and is composed of some of the oldest rocks on the planet. You will travel an old chrome mining road and trail up the side of a mountain with breathtaking views of Beartooth Pass, the valley below and high mountain lakes.

Lewis and Clark Tours

Timeframe: 1/2 to Full Day

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: Pompey’s Pillar National Monument Tour - Lewis & Clark Tours to include Clark’s story along the Yellowstone River and learn of the Indian Lore that surrounds the area. April through October, reservations required. Call or visit the website for reservations or more information.

Pappy's Cowboy Cookout

Timeframe: Approximately 2-4 hours

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: An evening event for all individuals and people who want to be entertained, fed a gourmet cowboy dinner and enjoy old wholesome country music with cultural activities. This evening activity and affair takes place just minutes from downtown Billings, Montana. There is only one way to get to the chuckwagon camp: by our very own covered wagon ride that will be provided for the evening. Enjoy other western activities while dinner is being served up like horseshoes, calf roping and outdoor games. This event can host large groups of up to 60 individuals.

Saddles and Paddles Adventure Tour

Timeframe: Full Day Adventure

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: Enjoy Big Sky Country in one of the best ways possible: by horseback riding for half of the day and then cooling off with a river float.

Slice of Country Tour

Timeframe: 2-4 Hours

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: The sharing of real rural life where you can enjoy a hay ride, visit the Big Red Barn and meet a variety of farm animals on a homestead that was settled in the early 1900’s. Beginning in May through the end of September. Reservations a must.

Sunset Jeep Adventure Tour

Timeframe: 1/2 Day

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: Travel the old trails traveled by Indians, explorers, and early settlers. See the Bozeman trail, Blood Valley, and other historical sites. Hear the stories of the area and the Old West, see the twin stone towers that stand 12 feet high and make the trails high above Blood Valley.

The 'Not So Hidden' Garden

Timeframe: Half Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: A swing by the Moss Mansion starts the tour as you travel south of the city to the beautifully designed and manicured DanWalt Garden. Guided by one of the owners, this tour concludes with a garden luncheon on the patio to enjoy the views.

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The Pillar and The Battlefield

Timeframe: Full Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: A tour rich in history. Experience some of the only physical evidence remaining from the Lewis & Clark Expedition; then on to the Little Bighorn Battlefield.

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The Red Lodge Experience

Timeframe: Half to Full Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: Get inspired by this guided and unique tour of the “Pathway though the Bible,” a garden with biblical stories and rock formations. Next, you’ll experience the breathtaking Beartooth Pass, then return to Red Lodge for lunch and self guided shopping. We’ll return to Billings via the old mining town of Bear Creek.

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Tour de Chocolate

Timeframe: 1.5 hours

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: 1.5 hours, October to May. Meet some of the finest candy makers and see if they will share their secrets. The samples are sure to delight!

Triple "S" (SweeTour & Shopping Spree)

Timeframe: Half Day Tour

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: Shopping is extra sweet when it includes chocolate dipped pretzels, tripled dipped apples and white chocolate huckleberry bark. A short walk takes you to specialty shops and more! Enjoy lunch at a local fave downtown restaurant.

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Western Hats & Suds Tour

Timeframe: 2-4 hours

Planning: Reserve ahead

Description: Year Round. Tour the largest and award winning micro-brews in Billings. Learn what words like “hops,” “yeast,” and “malt” mean when related to a micro-brew. And this tour is not over until you’ve sampled the brew (beer or root beer for those who prefer it). After sampling, head to the store with the finest hand crafted western hats mad in Billings. The hat makers will take you through all the steps from sizing your head to the final stitch of perfection.

Whoopah Rides!

Timeframe: Customizable

Planning: Reserve Ahead.

Description: A cowboy western activity and country event for adventurous people and families. The Whoopah Ride involves a covered wagon train adventure, historic site visits to Pompey’s Pillar and the Little Bighorn Battlefield. Musical entertainment and classic Western Romance cuisine will round out the ride.

Wild Mustangs Adventure Tour

Timeframe: (Full day tours on Saturdays from June to September)

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: Enjoy the Wild Mustang Tours and experience the majesty of the horses on either ATV or in a 4-wheel vehicle in the Pryor Mountains.

Windsinger Adventures

Timeframe: Customizable

Planning: Reserve Ahead

Description: A wilderness canoe trip - Montana Style. Five hundred paddle strokes per hour, sore neck, back, and shoulders not exactly how you get your jollies? Are you ready to break away from the pack and experience something extraordinary? Well, grab your coffee and step aboard! Kick back and relax because you are about to grab hold of the most delightful ride you will ever experience. Their sailing Cat-A-Canoes are extremely stable and efficient, and are powered by clean, pure, invigorating Montana breezes. You may paddle the Cats if you need that upper body workout, but most people just let the sails do all the work while on the river. You will be free to gaze at this enchanting land and encounter a place that will revive your senses. Your imagination will soar as you ghost by timeless rock formations that seem to have a life of their own. Windsinger Adventures believes “the best way to experience history is to live it” so they bring along an 18' Sioux tipi to help you surrender to the spell of those who lived here before us.

Yellowstone Park Tours

Timeframe: 2 Days or customize your own Yellowstone National Park Tour

Planning: Reserve guided tours ahead. Room reservations suggested for self guided excursions.

Description: Guided tours to Yellowstone National Park will include two day summer or winter packages. Some of the major sights include: Old Faithful Geyser and Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone Lake, Artist point of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and always wildlife viewing. This trip is custom and designed for 1 to 6 people with the same time frames available. Call or visit the website for reservations or more information.

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