Start from 27 curated places around Livingston, MT, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Chico Hot Springs Resort & Day Spa
The dining room at this 1900 resort in Paradise Valley is one of Montana's longest-running fine-dining rooms, built around beef Wellington, dry-aged steaks, and a flaming orange dessert finished tableside. The lettuce and herbs come from the resort's own greenhouse, and the wine list is unusually deep for a place this far from a city.
Campione
A Roman-style kitchen on Main Street that landed on the New York Times' best-restaurants list - house-made pasta, a braised-oxtail manicotti, and a short menu that changes with what's local. Small enough that it feels like eating in someone's dining room.
Trails & outdoors
Pine Creek Falls
A roughly 2-mile round-trip through pine forest to a waterfall crashing over boulders - the most popular short hike in Paradise Valley and the right first stop for the area. The trailhead sits at a Forest Service campground about ten miles south of town.
Pine Creek Lake
A hard 10-to-11-mile round trip that climbs roughly 3,400 feet past Pine Creek Falls through switchbacks to an alpine lake in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Long, unrelenting uphill and a serious payoff for fit hikers.
Things to do
The Murray Bar
The century-old bar inside the Murray Hotel and the epicenter of live music in southwest Montana - touring bands, house-infused cocktails, 16 taps, and a room that's been the downtown anchor for over 100 years. Where the night happens in Livingston.
Pine Creek Lodge
Beyond its kitchen, this Paradise Valley lodge runs an outdoor concert series on a pine-shaded stage with string lights and log seating - the insider live-music spot ten miles south of town. National acts turn up on a stage smaller than you'd expect.
Landmarks & sights
Yellowstone Gateway Museum
Housed in a 1906 schoolhouse on the National Register, this is the deep-dive on the region - Native cultures, the Corps of Discovery, and how the Northern Pacific Railway turned Livingston into Yellowstone's original front door. Out back there's a one-room schoolhouse, a blacksmith shop, and a caboose.
Livingston Depot Center
A restored 1902 Northern Pacific station designed by the same firm behind Grand Central, now a museum on the railroad era that made this town. Vintage steam-locomotive photos upstairs, a model-railroad club in the basement, and the actual platform where Yellowstone-bound tourists once stepped off.