Billings

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Downtown Billings Montana's largest city lies below the Rimrocks of the Yellowstone River Valley.  Here, vast ranches, farmland and stockyards are situated just outside the conveniences of a modern city.  Billings features broad, tree-lined avenues, and the metropolitan flavor of Montana's tallest buildings.  Billings is easily accessible by air or interstate highway.  More Billings Info >
 
~CREDITS~ 
Features: Bright Angel, Far & Away, Josh and S.A.M., Little Big Man, Missouri Breaks. Television: Dateline, America's Castles, Return To Lonesome Dove, Sesame Street, Son of the Morning Star, History Channel, Discovery Channel, The Amazing Race, Outdoor Life Network, Trading Spaces. Commercials: Buttrey Foods, Prudential, Toyota, Wal-Mart, Lithia Motors. Still Shoots: Center for Disease Control, Benetton, Harley Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Silhouette, Sunset Magazine. Documentaries: Paleo World, United States of Poetry, Charlie's Lake, Gods In White.

~ACCOMMODATIONS~

50 hotels/motels, with 3,800 rooms. 150 restaurants

~CITY OFFICIALS~

City Manager (406)657-8433
City Mayor (406)657-8296 .. Courthouse (406)256-2735
County Commissioners
(406)256-2701
 

~MEDIA~
Newspapers:
Billings Gazette
(800) 543-2505 or
(406)657-1200
The Billings Times (406)245-4994
Western Business Journal
(406)657-1561
Big Sky Business Journal
(406)259-2309
The Billings Outpost (406)247-5020
Yellowstone County News
(406)348-2649
Radio:
KBUL (406)248-7827
KBLG (406)652-8400
KGHL (406)238-1000
Northern Broadcasting System
(406)252-6661
KEMC (406)657-2987

Television:
KTVQ
(406)252-5611
KULR8
(406)656-8000
Community Seven TV
(406)247-3890


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SAFETY AND SECURITY~

Fire Department (406)657-8423 Highway Patrol (406)896-4351
Police (406)657-8200
Sheriff (406)256-2929
 
 
~SPECIAL LOCATIONS~ 
Alberta Bair Theater, Bighorn Battlefield Nat'l Monument, Bighorn Canyon, Chief Plenty Coups State Park, Crow Indian Reservation, MetraPark Arena (seats 12,000), Moss Mansion, Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Pictograph Cave State Park, Pompey's Pillar, Rimrocks, Western Fort set, Yellowstone River, Yellowtail Dam, Zoo Montana

~AIRPORT~

Logan International (406)657-8495

~FAIRGROUNDS~

MetraPark Arena (406)256-2400

~HISTORY/MUSEUMS~

Moss Mansion (406)256-5100 . Western Heritage Center
(406)256-6809
Peter Yegen Jr. Museum
(406)256-6811
Yellowstone Art Center (406)256-6804

 
~PUBLIC LANDS~
BLM (406)896-5013
Custer Nat'l Forest (406)657-6200
Pictograph Cave State Park
(406)245-0227
State Parks-Region 5 (406)247-2940

~PRIVATE LANDS~
Crow Indian Reservation (406)638-3700 Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation 
(406)477-6284


~UTILITIES~

Power:
Northwestern Energy (888)467-2669 Telephone:
Qwest (800)244-1111 or (406)657-3222

 
 
 
AREA CONTACT
Billings Convention and Visitors Bureau
PO Box 3117
Billings, MT 59107
(800)711-2630
(406)245-4111
(406)245-7333 - fax
POPULATION
95,220
ELEVATION
3,649 ft.
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