Start from 24 curated places around Red Lodge, MT, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
The One-Legged Magpie
A scratch kitchen on North Broadway doing a short, frequently rotating menu of New American plates — steaks, wood-fired pizzas, and a Montana pork chop that keeps coming up in reviews — alongside zero-proof cocktails and live music nights. It filled the serious-dinner gap on Broadway and has built one of the strongest local followings in town.
Piccola Cucina Ox Pasture
A Sicilian restaurant from a New York chef, planted in a historic Broadway building and leaning on Montana-raised beef and local produce. The tableside tiramisu and the pasta are the reasons people drive in from Billings for dinner here.
Trails & outdoors
Basin Lakes Trail
The classic Red Lodge alpine-lake hike off West Fork Road, climbing through forest to the first lake and on to the second if your legs hold. It's the trail locals send visitors on when they want lakes-and-peaks payoff without a full backpacking trip.
West Fork of Rock Creek Trailhead
From the end of West Fork Road, a steady valley hike past Calamity and Sentinel Falls up to Quinnebaugh Meadows under the high peaks. It's a longer, less-steep day than Basin Lakes, with waterfalls breaking up the climb.
Things to do
Red Lodge Ales Brewing Company
The town's brewery on the north edge of town, pouring its Beartooth pale ale and a rotating board in a taproom with a patio facing the peaks. After two-plus decades it's the default gathering spot, with dogs, kids, and post-hike crowds all welcome.
Roman Theatre
Montana's oldest continuously running movie house, on Broadway since 1917 with an eight-foot Art Deco neon marquee added in the 1930s. It still shows films and hosts events, so it's a working theater rather than a museum piece.
Landmarks & sights
Beartooth Highway
The switchbacking US-212 climb out of town that tops out near 11,000 feet on the way to Yellowstone's northeast entrance. The first few miles of switchbacks above Red Lodge already deliver the alpine views; you don't have to drive the whole 68 miles to feel it.
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary
A refuge on the edge of town for animals that can't be released back to the wild, including bears, wolves, bobcats, and raptors. Enclosures sit along a short walking loop, so you actually get close, unhealthy-close, to a grizzly without a 4 a.m. Lamar Valley stakeout.