Lounges

Billings, Montana

Billings's lounge scene serves Montana's most economically powerful city — a commercial hub where oil industry professionals, agricultural businesspeople, and the support industries that serve them create a lounge market of unusual economic density for a Montana city. Billings's extraordinary Rimrock formations (sandstone cliffs rising 400 feet above the city) and its position at the gateway to the Beartooth Highway create a city of dramatic natural beauty.

2702 Minnesota Ave, Billings, MT 59101

Bozeman, Montana

Bozeman's downtown cocktail lounge scene reflects the city's extraordinary transformation from a small college town to one of the Mountain West's most sophisticated small cities. The influx of tech industry workers from California has brought cocktail culture expectations that have elevated Bozeman's bar scene to match the quality of much larger cities.

Downtown Bozeman, MT 59715

Bozeman, Montana

Last Best Brewing & Distilling is Bozeman's most extraordinary craft beverage destination — a downtown brewery and distillery producing outstanding craft spirits and ales in Montana's most rapidly growing city. Bozeman's remarkable Silicon Slopes tech economy and its extraordinary outdoor recreation access create a lounge culture of unusual sophistication and energy for a Mountain West city of its size.

1 E Main St, Bozeman, MT 59715

Butte, Montana

Butte is America's most extraordinary drinking city — a former copper mining boomtown whose remarkable Irish-American working-class heritage creates a bar culture of unusual historical depth and genuine Montana grit. Butte's extraordinary history (at its peak it was Montana's largest city, the most valuable city in North America, and a center of labor union activity) creates a bar culture shaped by the most dramatic story of industrial rise and decline in the American West.

Park St, Butte, MT 59701

Livingston, Montana

Livingston is one of Montana's most culturally fascinating small towns — a Yellowstone gateway community where artists, ranchers, and Yellowstone ecosystem scientists create a community of unusual intellectual and creative depth. The Murray Hotel (where Sam Peckinpah, Jim Harrison, and Peter Fonda famously drank) and Livingston's extraordinary concentration of literary and artistic talent create a lounge culture of genuine Montana frontier intellectual significance.

130 N Main St, Livingston, MT 59047

Missoula, Montana

Missoula's cocktail lounge scene reflects one of Montana's most culturally dynamic cities — a mountain town where the Clark Fork River, the Rattlesnake Wilderness, and the university create an outdoor recreation and intellectual culture of unusual richness. The combination of outstanding craft breweries, quality cocktail bars, and Missoula's extraordinary outdoor culture create a lounge environment shaped by the finest qualities of life in the Rocky Mountain West.

South Missoula, MT 59801

Missoula, Montana

Butterfly Herbs is Missoula's most unique bar and tea room — a century-old herb shop that has also served as one of Missoula's most distinctive social gathering spaces since 1972. Its extraordinary combination of herbal traditions, the University of Montana's environmental culture, and Missoula's progressive community creates a bar atmosphere unlike anything else in Montana.

232 N Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT 59801

Missoula, Montana

Plonk Wine Bar is Missoula's most celebrated wine lounge — an extraordinary Higgins Avenue wine destination presenting the world's finest natural and artisan wines alongside exceptional small plates in Montana's most culturally ambitious city. Missoula's remarkable wine culture, driven by an educated university community and an outdoor lifestyle that values the contemplative pleasure of excellent wine, has made Plonk one of the most distinguished wine bars in the Rocky Mountain West.

322 N Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT 59801

Missoula, Montana

The Rhino is Missoula's most acclaimed craft cocktail lounge — a Ryman Street bar presenting outstanding cocktails in the most sophisticated lounge atmosphere in Montana. Missoula's extraordinary intellectual and creative community (the University of Montana creates a town of unusual academic and artistic depth) and The Rhino's consistent cocktail excellence create a lounge experience that regularly surprises visitors with its quality in one of America's most remote university cities.

158 Ryman St, Missoula, MT 59801

Whitefish, Montana

Whitefish is Montana's most sophisticated resort town — a Glacier Country community adjacent to Whitefish Mountain Resort and Glacier National Park where ski resort ambiance, outstanding craft cocktail bars, and the extraordinary natural beauty of the Flathead Valley create a lounge culture of remarkable Montana mountain luxury. Whitefish's extraordinary combination of world-class skiing, accessible wilderness (Glacier is 30 miles away), and outstanding food and drink create a resort town entertainment environment of genuine mountain excellence.

Central Ave, Whitefish, MT 59937