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05/13/2022

Big Sky Journal's annual HOME issue is on the shelves! Pick one up and check it out online.

05/09/2022

Stacey's Old Faithful Bar & Steakhouse offers a combination of history, community, good food, and camaraderie — the charm of a rustic bar and the appeal of a contemporary eatery in Gallatin Gateway, Montana.

Thirty miles north of Big Sky and just south of Bozeman, Montana, a fabled landmark started a new chapter in the fall of 2020. Today, Stacey’s Old Faithful Bar & Steakhouse offers a combination of history, community, good food, and camaraderie with the charm of...

04/22/2022

Don't miss the Grand Re-Opening Celebration of Cactus Records & Gifts and Record Store Day, tomorrow, Saturday, April 23 from 9am-7pm. Enjoy live music from 1pm-7pm and free beer while it lasts. The legendary Bozeman staple has moved from its downtown location to 2742 W. Main St. Check it out!

03/23/2022

Don't miss the 2nd annual No Man's Land Film Festival this Saturday, March 26th at the Emerson Center for Arts and Culture in Bozeman. Hosted by Mountain Girl, this is an all-women adventure film festival that celebrates females by un-defining what it means to be a woman in the outdoors. Along with the film festival is a vendor fair focusing on local, women-owned businesses in the outdoor space. Get your ticket today!

An all women adventure film festival, No Man’s Land celebrates females by un-defining what it means to be a woman in the outdoors.

03/23/2022

Our Fly-Fishing 2022 issue features a profile about the legendary Joan Wulff, who with her late husband Lee, started the Wulff School of Fly Fishing and greatly influenced the popularity, demographics, and conservation ethos of the sport.

In 1960, 34-year-old Joan Cummings — later to become Joan Wulff — used a one-handed bamboo fly rod to cast 161 feet and set an unofficial women’s record. Unofficial because there was no women’s distance division in casting events at the time; Joan competed with...

03/15/2022

Montana's Sun River, where multiple worlds spin in an under-the-radar fly-fishing universe.

I can’t believe all that water tore through here,” I reflected. “Even Noah’s proverbial ark would have splintered on the rocks, the world’s animals lost.” My wife Mary and I gaped over a rocky precipice into the maw of western Montana’s Sun River Canyon, time-traveling...

02/14/2022

Big Sky Journal’s 2022 Fly Fishing has hit the shelves! Pick one up today and check it out online. Cover photo by

12/29/2021

Montana chocolate pioneers Burnt Fork Bend Chocolate, Bear Basecamp, Ducrey Chocolate Maker are forging new flavors with their bean-to-bar varieties.

Jennifer Wicks places two bars of chocolate in front of me and my 14-year-old daughter Tessa. “These are each made with the same recipe of 72 percent cacao and 28 percent sugar,” she tells us. “See if you can tell the difference.” As fellow chocoholics,...

12/20/2021

A passion for backcountry skiing and snowboarding has fueled three successful companies in the Northern Rockies. In the BSJ Winter 2021 issue, see how Spark R&D, 22 Designs, and Igneous have been making a splash in the industry.

Ski resorts in the Rocky Mountain West — even the ones that once felt undiscovered — now seem more crowded than ever. For those of us who moved here to enjoy our winters gliding on the snow and carving turns in fresh powder, the experience...

12/17/2021

If you haven’t yet, pick up a BSJ Winter 2021 issue on the shelves now!

12/17/2021

If you haven't yet, pick up the BSJ Winter 2021 issue and check it out online!

11/19/2021

From the Fall issue, BSJ contributor Reynolds Ewald and photographer Hall look at ranching in the New West, and the pioneering couple that run Bridger Bison.

https://bigskyjournal.com/ranching-in-the-new-west/

It’s a long journey from Chicago to rural Montana. Most would say it’s an even longer one from an office job to ranch work. But when Matt and Sarah Skoglund embarked on that particular journey, they ended up at a destination they’d never imagined. While...

09/03/2021

The Jackson Hole, Wyoming-based design event of the year is back! From September 9 to 12, the 28,000-square-foot Snow King Events Center will once again be bustling with more than 100 artisans from around the country, and thousands of art and design fans, for the Western Design Conference Exhibit + Sale, held during the 10-day Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival.

After a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jackson Hole, Wyoming-based design event of the year is back. From September 9 to 12, the 28,000-square-foot Snow King Events Center will once again be bustling with more than 100 artisans from around the country,...

08/25/2021

Through his writing workshops, Rick Bass — the activist and author of more than 30 books of fiction and non-fiction — is able to share his craft, allowing other writers to share their perspectives with the world. In the BSJ ARTS issue, one workshop participant documents the process and Bass' unique approach.

The wall behind Rick Bass glows in the early winter hours like sunlit jars of honey. He is set up to lead a writer’s workshop from a young musician’s Western red cedar-paneled studio. Bass is alone, save for a jumble of dogs and a couple...

08/23/2021

In the newly released BSJ ARTS 2021 issue, read about the Bozeman, Montana-based Art Tinworks, an organization that helps promote contemporary art and artists in a variety of ways.

Like an electrical current, art can run through a community, light up the dark places, and spark discovery. One example is Tinworks Arts, an organization that pairs non-traditional spaces with emerging and established creatives. Located in Bozeman, Montana’s hip northeast neighborhood, the name to...

08/17/2021

ARTS 2021 letter from the editor Corinne Gaffner Garcia, painting by Luke Anderson.

One thing I’ve always loved about the Northern Rockies is the “cowboy casualty” if you will. There are few venues that require anything fancier than jeans — as illustrated by the general manager of Missoula’s 1889 restaurant in our “Dining Out” column. “When people call...