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Montana Attractions
Family attractions and adventure vacation getaways
Fiddler Creek Cabins are located near area lakes for Montana fly fishing, Montana hunting and mountain hiking. Nearby Red Lodge offers downhill skiing, golfing, sight seeing, mountain hiking and traveling the scenic Beartooth Highway. Cooke City offers fabulous Montana snowmobiling. White water rafting and whitewater kayaking on the Stillwater River, plus horseback riding and ATV rentals in the Beartooth Mountains are also available nearby. Or ... just stay at the cabin, relax on the deck, and let the day go by.
Spring
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Downhill skiing and snowboarding in the Beartooth Mountains
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Mystic Lake offers a 3 mile hike up to a mountain fed lake where you'll find rainbow and brown trout.
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Emerald Lake offers a short drive from the cabins with rainbow trout, brown trout, and some brookies and cutthroat.
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Sioux Charlie Lake offers 14" to 16" rainbow trout.
Fishtail Family Fun Day
Fishtail Family Fun Day is held in June at Fishtail, Montana, just 7 miles from Fiddler Creek Cabins. This small town knows how to put on the fun: yard sales, the famous "Duck Race," exciting things at the Fishtail General Store, a parade, lots of fun game booths for kids, and great concessions, plus live music. A great Saturday of fun for people of all ages!
Red Lodge 4th of July Celebration
5 minutes from Fiddler Creek Cabins. July 2, 3, and 4. A parade at noon on each of those 3 days, and a great rodeo at 6 p.m. on the 2nd and 3rd, with a 3 p.m. rodeo on the 4th. The town is really full of all kinds of fun things for this special holiday!
Absaroka River Adventures
Absaroka River Adventures offers half and full day scenic and whitewater raft
trips on the beautiful Stillwater River. We also offer float trips featuring our 2 person inflatable and 1 person sit-on-top kayaks.
Designated a National Forest Scenic Byway, the Beartooth Highway has been described by former CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt as ‘the most beautiful drive in America’. Reaching heights of nearly 11,000 feet, this 69-mile 3 hour drive offers skytop views of snowcapped peaks, glaciers, alpine lakes and plateaus.
Paintbrush
Adventures Inc. (406-328-4158)
Your trail
to the wilderness, great outdoors on horseback. Trail rides, summer pack
trips, fishing trips, day hikes and photo trips all located in the
Beartooth Mountains of the Custer National Forest. Open year round.
Absarokee
Days (childrens activities and arts and crafts)
Absarokee Days is held the last Saturday in July. Local merchants have booths and
there are various fund-raisers held throughout Absarokee. PTA hosts the
annual barbecue and there is always a wonderful parade.
Stillwater
County Fair
Stillwater
County Fair with 4-H and FFA member from the county involved.
Mystic Lake offers a 3 mile hike up to a mountain fed lake where you'll find a variety of trout . . .
Columbus
Stillwater Golf Course
Adventure
Whitewater Raft Trips, Inc.
Adventure
Whitewater is a family oriented rafting business doing whitewater
river trips on the Stillwater River near Absarokee, Montana. We have
private parking and private launch facilities. With over 20 years of
experience and a perfect safety record, we can give you the river
adventure you are looking for.
Farmers
Market
Held the
Saturday before Labor Day, the Farmer’s Market is a wonderful time
to see friends and family or to meet the community. Local farmers
bring in their goods and produce and local businesses set up booths
during this annual fund raiser for the Absarokee Civic Club.
Labor
Day Arts Fair & Wagons West Parade
This
fair features 60-75 artist’s displaying beads, pottery, crafts,
sculptures, furniture, and more in artists booths surrounding the
Depot and Lions Club park. Live entertainment provided by Red
Lodge’s own Peak-a-boos and the Country Rock’ N Cloggers.
Festival
of Nations
Red
Lodge Festival of Nations continues to honor its roots as a coal
mining town through the diverse ethnic groups that worked and settled
here. The Festival of Nations celebrates the Austrian-German-Swiss,
English-Irish-Welsh, Finnish, Italian, Scandinavian, Scottish and
Slavic cultures.
Red
Lodge Mountain Man Rendezvous
Mountain
men, cavalry, infantry, Indians, traders, scouts, buffalo hunters,
whiskey runners, mule skinners, and horse traders from all over the
world descend on Red Lodge for the Mountain Man rendezvous.
Rapelje
Mountain Bike and Fine Arts Festival
The
festival will include a Mountain Bike Endurance Race, Bicycle Fun
Rides for people of all ages, BBQ Dining, and a Homesteader’s
Costume Ball featuring Old Time String Band Music, and dances of the
era.
Benbow
ATV Rentals
Benbow ATV
Rentals offers hourly, 1/2 day or full day 4-wheeler rentals in the
beautiful Beartooth Mountains southwest of Absarokee. Miles of roads and
trails, abundant wildlife, and spectacular scenery provide our customers
with hours of fun.
'Running
of the Sheep' Sheep Drive
'Running
Of The Sheep' Sheep Drive features hundreds of sturdy Montana bred
woolies charging down the six blocks of Main Street in an event some
say is matched only by the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
The event also has a parade and contests, such as the ugliest sheep
and the prettiest ewe. There will also be a precision draft horse
cultivating event with prize money.
Fall
Montana
Hunting
Visit Montana
Fish Wildlife & Parks web site for more information on hunting
and fishing in Montana.
Winter
Red
Lodge Mountain Resort (downhill skiing and snowboarding)
Red
Lodge Mountain offers a big mountain and modern amenities at family
friendly prices. Down the road is the lively western town of Red
Lodge.
Red
Lodge Nortic Center (cross-country skiing and snowshoeing)
Nestled
at the base of the Beartooth Mountains, the Center is only 3 miles
away from downtown Red Lodge.
Cooke City
/ Silver Gate (snowmobiling)
Gateway
to Yellowstone National Park and the spectacular Beartooth high
country, Cooke City / Silver Gate provides perhaps the longest winter
sports season in Montana. The makers of both Yamaha and Arctic Cat
snowmobiles have chosen the area as a test site and promotional film
location for their machines.
Christmas
Light Parade
The
Columbus Parade of Lights is sure to get you in the Holiday Spirit.
Each entry is lighted with Christmas lights and runs on generators.
Come join us for this unique event.
Restaurants
Cowboy
Bar & Supper Club - Fishtail -
406-328-4288
Grizzly
Bar - Roscoe - 406-328-6789
Dew
Drop Inn - Absarokee - 406-328-4121
The
Stake Out - Absarokee - 406-328-6566
Trout Hole - Dean - 406-328-7400
