A true artist will never be or do just one thing. In the spirit of Bernini, Michaelangelo, and Frank Gehry, Meghan Hanson possesses the irresistible urge to create. It’s how she gets to know a place and how she shares what she loves. It’s how......
After countless vacations skiing in Big Sky, Montana, John and Vanessa McGuire made a leap-of-faith decision for their sports-minded family. In 2019, they permanently moved with their three children — two daughters and a son — from New York City to 6 acres that roll......
Founded in 2014 by principal designer Sophia Cok, Bozeman, Montana-based Sanctuary Interior Design is a full-service firm focused on turnkey interior design for commercial and residential projects. Employing over 20 years of experience, Cok and her team deliver a unique design experience curated to each......
Down to Earth: Rammed Earth Architecture Written by Sergio Asensio Renowned Spanish editor and designer Sergio Asensio’s Down to Earth: Rammed Earth Architecture features 22 national and international architects who have incorporated rammed earth in their designs and construction, including Ward | Blake Architects’ work......
PHASES BATH AND KITCHEN ACCESSORIES BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN HARDWARE Rocky Mountain Hardware collaborated with Jennifer Hoey of Suede Studio to create Phases, a versatile new kitchen and bath accessories collection that is as beautiful as it is functional. Curves and contemporary angles pair with the......
Architecture Centre Sky Architecture Construction Dovetail Construction Interior Design Laura Fedro Interiors On a sloping hillside above the banks of Ennis Lake in Montana, a jewel-box home, intentional in its design and craftsmanship, provides the perfect vantage point for Lisa and Scott Carver to take......
Architecture Thinktank Design Group Construction North Fork Builders Interior Design Envi Interior Design Studio At the nexus of building and design, neighborhood and belonging, sunlight and shelter, is a house becoming a home. A four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, 4,500-square-foot home in northeast Bozeman, Montana blends old ideas......
Architecture Ward | Blake Architects Construction Big-D Signature Interior Design Ingrao Inc. In 1925, residents of Jackson, Wyoming petitioned the U.S. government to establish a slice of the town’s surrounding landscape as Grand Teton National Park. “We have tried ranching, stock raising, and, from our......
Architecture Paradigm 3 Architecture Construction E.J. Butts Construction Interior Design Kibler & Kirch Montana’s Bitterroot Valley is an edenic Western landscape, with towering snow-capped mountains on all sides and a big clear river running through its middle. For a Texas couple passionate about fishing and......
Architecture NC Design Studio Construction Gooden Construction Interior Design James Thomas Fleetingly glimpsed from a distance across a sweeping mountain meadow and surrounded by groves of pine, fir, and tamarack trees, the overall profile of a home on 22 acres west of Missoula, Montana might......
Architecture Locati Architects Construction Schlauch Bottcher Construction Interior Design Suede Studio Landscape Architecture Design 5 Landscape Architecture Landscaping Valley of the Flowers Landscaping Pond and Stream Consulting It’s not often that a luxury custom home features a rec room — complete with shuffleboard, pool table,......
Since the late 1800s, travelers have poured into and passed through Pocatello, Idaho via the Oregon Trail, helping establish the modest-sized city as a gateway to the West. For Pocatello-born and -raised artist Ashley Delonas, life in the area has been a gateway to personal......
There is an art to collecting rocks. Everywhere Gary Rieschel, his wife, Yucca, and their children have traveled, they’ve brought back souvenirs of those places. They’ve gathered small rocks and stones from beaches and riverbeds, in barren deserts, and on precipitous mountain outcroppings during their......
Craftsman Tim Lozier is totally willing to try his hand at doing something new. Play in a country rock band? No problem. He taught himself how to play the drums, and 40 years later, he plays as a band’s lead drummer. Chase his passion as......
Travelers flying into Jackson Hole Airport are welcomed by stunning views of the Tetons. The airport is within Grand Teton National Park and is the only U.S. commercial airport situated within a national park. A series of renovations to the airport began in 2008, with......
May 3 – 5 & September 6 – 8 Cheyenne Home Show Cheyenne Ice & Events Center | Cheyenne, WY cheyennehomeshow.com Featuring the latest in home improvement trends, this show includes displays and live demonstrations highlighting new home technologies, interior exterior designs, remodeling tips, and......
Architecture Timber Forge Construction Mountain River Construction Interior Design Camp Martini Ask principal architect Kevin Richardson of Timber Forge to name what he loves most about his client’s newly built Whitefish, Montana home, and he doesn’t hesitate — aside from the incredible outdoor living area,......
Architecture Cushing Terrell Construction Dick Anderson Construction Interior Design James Thomas The process of creating any home succeeds only so far as everyone involved — homeowners, architects, interior designers, builders, and any number of other participants — works together to achieve an ideal balance of......
Architecture Centre Sky Architecture Construction High Country Builders Rock work Quarry Works Riley Masonry Construction The west facade of the Great Northern Chalet in Whitefish, Montana makes an impressive architectural statement. Hand-chiseled stones — some weighing 20,000 pounds — form the wall that rises, stone......
Architecture JLF Architects Construction Big-D Signature Interior Design WRJ Design JLF Architects is the genius that designed a house that emerges from arches of aspen trees and a base of brush and grasses like an organic expression of its stirring Jackson Hole, Wyoming landscape. True......
Architecture Pearson Design Group Construction Highline Partners Interior Design Alexandra Karram Interiors Landscape Architecture Design Workshop It’s not easy to alter a mountain. But when a team composed of two enlightened homeowners, an architect, a landscape architect, and a builder convened on a two-lot site......
Jody Marler, founder and president of Fishcamp Custom home building in Livingston, Montana, believes in a profound connection to place. Despite a recent fishing trip to Mexico, exchanging the late-winter chill of the Rockies for a few days of sun, sea, and big fish, he......
Architecture CLB Architects Construction KWC Interior Design CLB Architects Landscape Architecture Design Workshop When a New York couple approached Jackson Hole-based CLB Architects about building a house on a former cattle ranch in Wyoming, there was instant ease of communication and shared understanding of vision,......
Architecture Reid Smith Architects Construction Teton Heritage Builders Appreciating the rugged beauty and endless splendor of Big Sky Country’s mountain magic isn’t hard to do. For those seeking a destination dream home surrounded by vibrant views of a craggy range and endless sky above a......
A deep pool Water as clear as the air I see She lives there My happiness I know this Though I’ve never seen her Not physically I’ve never touched nor held her vermiculated structure So I believe Despite all my efforts to prove otherwise It’s......
Montana occupies a special place in America’s conservation lore. Not only is it home to the world’s first national park — Yellowstone — but it’s also where one of the nation’s first wilderness areas, the Bob Marshall, was designated, which, in turn, set the stage......
The Western History Association recently announced that a book by Belgrade, Montana author Michele Corriel won the national 2023 Joan Paterson Kerr Award for the best-illustrated book on the history of the American West. Montana Modernists: Shifting Perceptions of Western Art chronicles six mid-20th-century artists......
Montana Freshwater Partners (MFP) works to restore and preserve healthy rivers, streams, and wetlands by applying science-based practices to complex problems impacting water resources and communities throughout Montana. Considering that 80 percent of all life is directly impacted by an aquatic ecosystem of one sort......
Architecture KA Architecture Construction MDM Construction “This is not a mansion. It’s just a home,” says Tim Davis of the primary residence he and his wife, Chris, have created for themselves in Montana’s Sun West Ranch community. Indeed, while the 4,100-square-foot house measures up to......
Jim Bortz has been many things. He’s worked at a steel mill and on construction sites, repaired cable lines, led expeditions as a fishing guide, tended bar, and apprenticed with a taxidermist. He’s a lifelong sportsman and artist, self-taught in both fields. But these days,......
All mayflies are beautiful, but especially so to the fly angler’s eye. That all mayflies feed and fatten trout makes them, to that eye, more beautiful yet. I may have a favorite, and that favorite could change, but each Montana mayfly is surely the favorite......
Tom Rosenbauer can get any uncle excited about a small stream. Alvin Dedeaux can teach you how to almost look cool when you’re chasing bass. Kelly Galloup can demonstrate knocking out a 10-inch trout with a 12-inch streamer. But to my knowledge, no fly-fishing personality......
Water, no matter if it’s at the beach, running through a creek, or even in a puddle, is as fascinating to kids as it is to anglers. They’ll play in it all day long if you let them — splashing, digging holes, making channels. Joseph......
The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi (Simon & Schuster, $27.99) is the kind of novel for which the form was invented. It creates sweeping, lush worlds, fully inhabited by its unforgettable characters. It spans continents and lifetimes with careful detail and balance. It leaves the......
Thomas E. Minckler has dealt in rare books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and art for much of his life. His 2023 book, Montana: A Paper Trail, is a historical narrative that guides readers through the 19th century of the Northern Plains, Rocky Mountains, and early Montana.......
Upon walking through the front doors of the Simms headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, a passion for angling is immediately apparent: It permeates the very building. There’s the latest merchandise on display, an entire wall filled with best-in-the-business awards, and a brief history of the company......
Among America’s most renowned luthiers, Montanan Ren Ferguson has made custom guitars for The Beatles, The Stones, Tom Petty, and Emmylou Harris, just to name a few. But recently, he’s used his hands to craft a heralded instrument dedicated to the stars of the trout......
Some might find it strange that one of my favorite trout streams flows through a burned-over canyon. I first visited Roaring Lion Creek in mid-July 2019, almost three years after a wildfire engulfed much of its basin. It was a cool and cloudy day, with......
I am featherlight, tossed like confetti into a brilliant blue sky, jostled about on the velvet wings of thousands of birds — tundra swans, herons, snow geese, northern pintails, marbled godwits. I roll from one downy back to another as we soar in harmony toward......
We’re a couple dozen miles down a rolling, dusty, backcountry road that shadows the Greys River in western Wyoming, and I can’t find the dream pool I want to fish. This uncertainty has my 15-year-old daughter stressed out. “Dad? Are we lost?” she asks for......
From any angle where Main Street meets Callender, the corner restaurant looks unassuming enough. Warm yellow light emanates from within as dusk falls. A handful of people in ski coats and Carhartts gather outside, waiting for the door to open at 5 o’clock. On the......
Looking back, the country got me first. Spending countless miles driving through the West was intoxicating; an obsession that only worsened after years of snowboarding remote backcountry slopes and fly fishing the world’s most beautiful rivers. Once you experience that type of recreational solitude, nothing......
The trout-filled limestone canyon of Montana’s Smith River — twisting through the Big and Little Belt mountains — would have made a magnificent subject for America’s best Western landscape painters and photographers, visionaries like Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, William Henry Jackson, and Ansel Adams. And......
The temperature gauge in my truck reads 1 degree Fahrenheit as we pass through Roosevelt’s Arch at the northwest entrance to Yellowstone National Park. A full moon hangs low to the west over Electric Peak, opposite the trajectory of the rising sun. The reflected sunlight......
Who made your shirt? I’m not asking about its brand or the country where it was manufactured. Who was the actual person who put in work to make your shirt? I don’t know who made mine, not to mention any of the other shirts I......
The sun is starting to set behind Wyoming’s Rendezvous Mountain as the last and most committed skiers descend to the base area after a beautiful bluebird day at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. As ski patrol sweeps the mountain to ensure no one is lost or......
Architecture Brechbuhler Architects Construction M Squared Construction Bridger Canyon holds a rare beauty that sticks with you, even in a place as majestic as southwest Montana. Close to downtown Bozeman, the canyon is accessible, but walk a half mile off the road, and you’ll find......
At the end of last winter, with the final days of the ski season fast approaching, there was a mad dash for tram rides at Big Sky Resort in Montana. The ski area’s iconic lift — installed at the top of 11,166-foot Lone Peak in......
Some 20 years ago, I met David Quammen under unusual circumstances. He had written an essay about cougars for a wilderness advocacy publication to which I subscribed. The piece included some disparaging comments about cougar hunting, largely based on the assumption that lion hunters are......
Maps hold a promise of roads untaken, the allure of the exotic, and adventures yet to come. For James Niehues, a legend in the ski world for his bird’s-eye maps, his works are much more than renditions of place. They combine panoramic views of the......