Start from 36 curated places around Billings, MT, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Walkers Grill
A downtown grill and tapas bar that has anchored the Billings dinner scene for years, built on regionally farmed ingredients and a long wine list. The tapas menu lets you graze across small plates without committing to one entree. Good for a longer dinner or a seat at the bar with a few shared plates.
Ciao Mambo
A lively Italian kitchen on Montana Avenue cooking pasta to order in an open kitchen you can watch from your table. It runs warm and loud in the best way, which makes it a good family or group choice. Come hungry for handmade pasta.
Trails & outdoors
Zimmerman Park
A rimtop park on the West End with about four miles of trail across rocky terrain, dense brush, and sharp turns, popular with hikers and mountain bikers. The West Loop is the locals' go-to for a moderate workout with rim views. Good for a 1-to-2-hour outing close to town.
Phipps Park
A roughly 2.5-mile loop northwest of the West End winding through sandstone buttes and brush-covered plateaus, with switchbacks and narrow rocky paths. The sunrise views over the valley rival any in town. Good for a moderate morning hike with a payoff overlook.
Things to do
ZooMontana
Montana's only zoo and botanical park, set on 70 acres on the West End with big cats, bears, red pandas, and native species among the gardens. It is the obvious family outing in Billings. Good for half a day with kids who need to roam outdoors.
Reef Indoor Water Park
Montana's largest indoor water park, with body slides like the Barracuda Blaster, a lazy river, and an interactive kids' playhouse with a dumping bucket. It is the rainy-day or cold-weather card to play with kids. Good for an afternoon of indoor splashing regardless of the forecast.
Landmarks & sights
Yellowstone Art Museum
Billings' main contemporary and Western art museum, set in a former county jail downtown, with a permanent collection heavy on Rocky Mountain West work including cowboy illustrator Will James. The rotating contemporary shows are the reason to keep coming back. Good for a couple of unhurried hours indoors.
Moss Mansion Historic House Museum
A 1903 red-sandstone mansion designed by the architect behind New York's original Waldorf-Astoria, with most of the Moss family's original furnishings still in place. The guided tour walks you through period rooms that have barely changed in a century. Best for anyone who likes house museums and Gilded-Age detail.