The community also has several taverns and restaurants and Old Trail Museum, specializing in preservation of dinosaur fossils. Choteau also has a small airport and is on trucking routes and Burlington Northern Railroad. The Front forms the seam between the wild lands and wilderness of the Lewis and Clark National Forest and the foothills and plains domesticated by area ranchers and farmers. Sparsely populated, the Front is made up of small communities, linked by miles of country roads and highways, that are dedicated to maintaining the special quality of life that makes living here so worthwhile. The Front is a slice out of America's heartland and, in some ways, is a slice out of this country's past.
Crime rates are low out here and violent crime is almost non-existent.
We don't have gangs in our schools or on our streets, and we still enjoy old-fashioned pleasures like community dances, family picnics and going for a drive in the country. Our culture and traditions are steeped in the fertile soil and in the wheat and barley and livestock we raise as our top marketable products. Seasons around here include calving, lambing, haying, seeding, harvesting and, in the fall, shipping. When you see cowboys moving their cattle along a roadway, you can bet they live on a ranch in the area and they probably learned to ride shortly after they learned to walk. We value the wide open spaces, the pristine wildlife habitat, the clean air and bountiful water.