Of Sage & Stone: A Guide to Southwest Montana's Rural Treasures
New Travel Guide Features Southwest Montana Heritage & Culture
MPA is delighted to announce Of Sage & Stone: A Guide to Southwest Montana’s Rural Treasures. This new full-color travel guide takes visitors down back roads and scenic byways to the doorsteps of artists studios, galleries, museums, historic sites and more.
“Southwest Montana has some of our best kept secrets,” says Christine Brown, MPA Education & Outreach Director, “and this book is the key to discovering creative people and treasured places that make this rural region so special.” The guide book is the perfect companion for visitors to Yellowstone Park, Butte, or Helena who want to spend a few extra days or even a week exploring rural Montana, away from summer crowds, one-on-one with artists, crafters, ranchers, or shop keepers.
Travelers can choose from five loop tours and discover where history, culture and creativity come alive. Meet fiber artists, wood carvers, and glass artists, see National Historic Landmarks, find arts and crafts studios and small welcoming galleries, or escape to a guest ranch, bed and breakfast, restored farmhouse, or century-old cabin for a getaway week. These small towns and rural locales are some of the best places in the state to find adventure and make real Montana memories.
Of Sage & Stone was created in partnership with volunteers from 18 communities across Southwest Montana, and inspired by the Hands of Harvest Craft Trails of North Central Montana guide book and by Becky Anderson’s The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina. These books were designed to encourage creative enterprise and revitalize the economies of rural regions formerly dependent on agriculture and heavy industry. The guide book is available at Southwest Montana chambers of commerce, galleries, museums, and at www.ofsageandstone.com.
