Summer Recreation
Pine Creek Falls and Pine Creek Lake
Excellent hiking is available just a little further up the road from Luccock Park Camp. Drive through the Pine Creek Campground to the Pine Creek trailhead which is right on the boundary to the magnificent Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness area (one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower 48 at just under 1 million acres). A rather easy 1.25 mile hike takes you to a spectacular waterfall. From the waterfall, the trail continues another 4 miles up to a beautiful cirque lake ringed by spectacular mountain peaks. While the trail to the falls is relatively flat (for Montana) and easy, the trail beyond the falls is quite steep — gaining around 3,000 feet in those 4 miles! Pine Creek Lake is over 9,000 feet in elevation, so folks coming from lower elevation areas will likely experience some altitude effects on this hike (i.e., shortness of breath and light-headedness).
Yellowstone National Park
The world’s first national park is just down the road! Nearly 3,500 square miles of spectacular forests, rivers, gorges, hotsprings, geysers and abundant wildlife (bears, wolves, bison, bighorn sheep, elk, otters and on and on). Check it out at Yellowstone National Park.
Montana Folk Festival
Montana’s annual folk festival will be happening in Butte (about 90 miles west of Bozeman) the weekend before Summergreen 2024. It features world class music and dance from all over the globe. Last year there were contra dancing and international folk dancing during the weekend. Check it out at montanafolkfestival.com.
Hot Springs
Bozeman Area
Bozeman is a fast-growing town (in Montana we call this a city) surrounded by mountains with a historic downtown, a world-class dinosaur museum, and access to a wide variety of outdoor recreation: hiking, kayaking, climbing, mountain biking, fly fishing, camping, horseback riding, hot springs.
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