Driving around Missoula, Montana

is a city in the U.S. state of Montana; it is the county seat of Missoula County. It is located along the Clark Fork River near its confluences with the Bitterroot and Blackfoot Rivers in western Montana and at the convergence of five mountain ranges, thus it is often described as the "hub of five valleys". In 2019, the United States Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 75,516 and the population of the Missoula Metropolitan Area at 118,791. After Billings, Missoula is both the second largest city and metropolitan area in Montana. Missoula is home to the University of Montana, a public research university.
William T. Hamilton first settled in the Missoula area in 1858 with a trading post near current Missoula along the Rattlesnake Creek along with Captain Richard Grant settling near Grant Creek, and David Pattee near Pattee Canyon. Missoula was founded in 1860 as Hellgate Trading Post while still part of Washington Territory. By 1866, the settlement had moved east, 5 miles (8 km) upstream, and renamed Missoula Mills, later shortened to Missoula. The mills provided supplies to western settlers traveling along the Mullan Road. The establishment of Fort Missoula in 1877 to protect settlers further stabilized the economy. The arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883 brought rapid growth and the maturation of the local lumber industry. In 1893, the Montana Legislature chose the city as the site for the state's first university. Along with the U.S. Forest Service headquarters founded in 1908, lumber and the university remained staples of the local economy for the next hundred years.
By the 1990s, Missoula's lumber industry had gradually disappeared, and as of 2009, the city's largest employers were the University of Montana, Missoula County Public Schools, and Missoula's two hospitals. The city is governed by a mayor-council government with twelve city council members, two from each of the six wards. In and around Missoula are 400 acres (160 ha) of parkland, 22 miles (35 km) of trails, and nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of open-space conservation land with adjacent Mount Jumbo home to grazing elk and mule deer during the winter. The city is also home to both Montana's largest and its oldest active breweries as well as the Montana Grizzlies, one of the strongest college football programs in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Notable residents include the first woman in the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin,

[@TheCatAteMyShoe]

It's been nearly 30 years since I last set foot in this town and a lot has changed. But I see The Junction is still malfunctioning.... And the Thunderbird is still there... I used to clean rooms after high school classes.

[@tylerbrown2772]

I lived there in from 2004 to summer of 2006 and a lot has changed except the location of the mall, the location of the dollar tree and the big Walmart everything else there just feels like a totally different place to me now

[@adamdouglaaas4754]

Sorry about your shoe

[@jt1929]

I usually take Orange St. exit, nice to see Van Buren with the roundabouts. I always avoided that as it was near impossible to take a left turn with the traffic going to the Rattlesanke creek area. I lived a few blocks from Malfunction Junction👍

[@jch5150]

I enjoyed that. Do you have any footage driving through Lolo and south?

[@mcvice3490]

Nice playlist.

[@thomasgamerthebiggestroblo2591]

That’s my hometown