Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Red Lodge, MT? The wife is on Zillow....

So what should I warn her about that location? Tourists? High cost? Level One medical in town? Do elk walk down the street in winter?

You won't last 12 months.

Winter is windy and cold, it’s nice the other 3 months. Health care is almost non existent. You’re are going to want to be closer to a larger city as you get older in order to get medical services.

Small town (pop. 2,500) with limited activities. But then you are only 1 hour form Billings (pop. 110,000).

Thanks Capt. Google.

Disregard

Red Lodge is awesome, downside is summer tourist, high real estate cost due to seasonal liberals.

It seems every summer half the homes in town are for sale , albeit at an inflated price, trying to get a tourist too pay to much.

Winters can be umm..... cold & snowy

You are at the base of the Beartooth's with unbelievable scenery and outdoor recreation.

They do have a hospital and for small town Montana that is something.

Oh and cant forget you have the snow creek saloon, good times.....

Follow this advice. We're finding it out more and more as time goes by and we've only been here two years +/-. Seems like once or twice a month one or the other of us is driving 2-4 hours to a specialist.

Fortunately we have 4 seasons..........kind of.

Geno

Red Lodge is only 1.5 hrs from the best health care Montana has to offer.
If you live there you will find yourself going to Billings often for shopping restaurants, doctor appointments etc....
If you can stand the winters it is a great place.
Do you ski?

In another week you will be calling us yankees

GFY, yankee.

To put a sharper point on things I will add that you should warn your wife that the Harley's arrive in June and don't leave until September 1st. The Beartooth Pass is a mecca of sorts so plan on infinite numbers of Corvette, Porsche, and motorcycle clubs planting stakes early.

"An hour from Billings" (it will be closer to 2) sounds great. Until she has to make that drive in the dead of winter. Plows don't run in rural MT the way they do in other places. In the summers you can't be in too much of a hurry either. Two lanes, lots of traffic and not a lot of opportunity to get around the 10 cars in front of you.

The Beartooth's are an amazing place but the majority of it is wilderness designated and isn't real easy to access unless you have horses or are in great shape. In the summer's you can expect insane levels of people even in the woods. This is a recent development in my opinion. I backpacked down there every summer for about 10 years and the amount of people today vs 2008 is staggering. I have gone down there on non-holiday weekends and was unable to find a camping spot on the north side of the pass. We are talking hundreds of possible spots here (both primitive and non) and every one was full.

When she wants to escape it all and drive down in Yellowstone any time between late fall and early spring, you can forget it. The pass is closed and stays that way.

When it is clear you can run down to the Cooke City Yellowstone area, but she better like Chinamen that dive out of moving vehicles to snap pics of buffalo, because that's what you're gonna see until about September.

Also, "having a hospital" is a far cry from having good medical care in my experience.

I personally could retire around a place like that but I would think most people would hate it after the first summer.

Red Lodge Cafe has the best sourdough pancakes I have ever eaten.

The guy is from Minnesota, and everyone is warning him about the winters....

TFF..

LMAO. I thought the same thing.

never been there but i'll offer expert advice. cold, crowded, expensive, schitty healthcare, nice scenery that you'll get sick of in a few months. entitled yuppies on motor sickles and driving cars that make up for their withered dicks.

sounds nice. for about a day.

Too many leaf lickers in red Lodge. To many clown cars. Town folks are very clannish. Couple of decent restaurants. They think bears in town are cute......

Plenty try though, making it a harrowing drive at best.

No need to go to Yellowstone for bear watching. There are plenty of griz within a few miles of town.

Temps might be comparable but snowpack and road conditions will definitely take some getting used to.

"sounds nice. for about a day"

Or until you have a heart attack!