Several motels rooms are also on the same property. It takes a little extra time to go this route, but the sights and discoveries beckoning along the way are worth the journey. Many Montana ghost towns are found in the hills near Philipsburg. Try Ghost Towns of Montana . Tourists to the area often try their luck digging for sapphires in ancient gravel deposits.
Visitors enjoy great local hospitality, befitting of an old cowboy and mining town.
The Grizzlies hang around the University's athletic department and are famous for smashing opponents in the Big Sky Conference, especially in men's basketball and football. As might be expected in a college town, many tea sippers populate local hangouts. Away from the university, Missoula is a regular sort of town. Many folks work in forestry and forest products industries. When in Missoula, Montana beer lovers stop at the Bayern Brewery for a mug of Bayern Pilsener or Bayern Amber, brewed by the resident Master Brewer.