I am a life long resident of Montana. I currently live in Billings. I am a Native American Indian woman who's roots are very deep in Montana. All I ever see is beauty living here. I will never live anywhere else ☺️. Thanks for visiting Billings please come back soon.
Thank you for your comment. I was a bit nervous about the city as I drove in and saw the refineries, but the rest of the city turned out to be beautiful. BTW, I'm a descendent of Native Americans - my grandmother was full Cherokee (she lived her life in Oklahoma).
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip that odious refinery is the smell of money and jobs. (also note: on your next trip through town in late winter be sure to get a whiff of the sugar beet factory)
I just moved here a few months ago and came across some really nice people, and some really straight up rude people. So I guess like any big city you're going to have a mix. I learned quickly not to work for the Billings Public School District. Looks wise, I think Billings is just fine :-) has everything you need and considering how many people are here, the traffic is not as bad as I expected.
I am originally from Chicago. I moved here 30 years ago and do not regret the move. Looking for excitement in a city venue indicates young adults who have not yet realized you make your own excitement.
Homeless problem is a lot worse than you just seeing “one.” Walk around at night. They usually don’t hangout on the main downtown streets due to police not allowing them to linger in front of businesses.
Yeah most the homeless people don’t hang out in that part of town. They’re more near the library and stuff like that where there’s less people walking around
My dad is on the city council in Billings and I am currently running for one of the state senate districts here in town. Love seeing an outsider's perspective because so many locals don't realize how truly wonderful it is here! Of course, we have issues like crime and homelessness that need to be addressed, but what city doesn't! Thanks so much for visiting and if you ever come back and need some good food recommendations, reach out any time!
I am Swedish immigrant living 50 miles north of Billings. I have been living in different places, different countries, but Montana is the best ! Thank you for beautiful video about the favorite US town!
I have also lived in many places in the world, and often research about Montana, although I have never been there. What do you like about Montana and Billings ? Why is it your favourite town ? I am drawn to Montana, from Europe, because I imagine it has cleabn air, few people, great nature and many things to do like hiking, camping, swimming and all that., 🇺🇸 Thank you.
@@dirkbogarde7796 fantastic nature will leave you breathtaking, great fresh air ,no crowded places,great kind people.If you aren't into city life ,Montana is the great place to live . I love Billings because ( my own words) it is so wide spread town ,so you don't have this awful feeling that someone is literally breathing behind your neck ,as in many other US cities. And almost a you need you can get in Billings. Although it isn't a huge city ,it is the largest one in Montana and in Wyoming.
Billings was great! I was a bit nervous driving as I saw the refineries belching smoke (thus the title), but as I got in and explored I saw how great it is.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I've lived in really big cities (Tampa & Orlando) and find it funny when people talk about the traffic and the crime in Billings. As for the homeless problem Billings does have a good number of homeless/transient that seem to come through every Summer. When the homeless shelter was downtown on Montana Ave you would see more. They moved it over a few blocks so there aren't quite so many in the restaurant areas downtown.
Thank you for the outsiders pov. A lot of our residents don’t understand how great it is here. I think the problem is that they have no idea how crazy and bad a truly big city can be. I’ve seen it and really appreciate my hometown. I actually live in Lockwood on the other side of the river. It is classified as Billings as well. You should have drove through emerald hills for beauty and down by Dickie for not so pretty. Lol. Thanks for visiting 😊
I've laughed at people complaining about bad areas of town that would be lower middle class neighborhoods back east. They do not have a clue how good we got it...
I’m so glad I found this channel! I’ve been to a lot of big US cities, but haven’t seen a lot of these medium sized ones. Great tours, keep up the awesome work! Liked and subscribed.
Thank you for the kind words, James! We have visited most of the big cities in the US as we work to see all 50 states. We are now, however, moving into visiting smaller, lesser known cities and towns in rural America. It’s the part of our travels I have been most looking forward to getting to, and it’s what we’ll be doing from now on.
Thanks for the video 📸 My dad was born in Billings but I've never been there. It actually looks like a nice town. Now I'm thinking 🤔 of visiting Montana because of this video. Once again, thanks for your video
Back in the 1980s there was a big brush fire at the Custer battlefield and after it was all put out it was AMAZING how many artifacts they found just sitting on the ground. They called in some archeologists who were able to track the battle just from the cartridge cases they found. So for over 100 years there were hundreds of artifacts from the battle that were just laying there under the brush that no one knew were there. I think National Geographic did a documentary on the find. I remember seeing it and was pretty facinated with the whole thing.
We drove through the Bear Tooth Pass from Yellowstone and looped around to Billings and the Crow indian reservation just south of there to visit the site of Custer's last stand in around August 1983 - we were there on a midweek day. We watched a documentary on a continuous loop at the ranger station and then walked up to the monument. There had been a prairie grass fire and the slopes around the monument were still smoldering. Saw on the news later in our travels that some of the smoldering object were boots and other debris remaining from the battle, and that a proper archeological survey was to be done of the area. There was not another person there on the day we visited - didn't even see anyone in the ranger station. Beautiful art of the world though.
That first empty building that you showed was where I had my first job, my mom worked there for over 30 years and she had me working there on weekends when I was 14 til I graduated. It was partially a restaurant called Pug Mahons and it made the best food and had the best people. We’ve missed that place a lot since it closed.
Shay Love, I miss Pug Mahon's too. In the 90's, I used to live right across the street, in the Claire Apartments, right above the old Expert Tire shop.
Pugs was the first place mom took me to lunch when we moved there in the early 90s, it was one of those places that was a special occasion restaurant. We miss pugs like no other.
I was born in Billings, but grew up in Hardin, near the Battlefield. The Battlefield area was an open playground for us in the 60's and early 70's with minimal oversight back then. A friends family owned the land outside Hardin where "Fort Custer" was built after the battle. We found the forts garbage dump in the mid 60's and spent many days digging up old artifacts...bottles, uniform scraps, leather items, ammunition cartridges, uniform buttons, and an occasional "US" Belt Buckle.
I currently live in Billings and also a new subscriber, also if you ever seen the bikes on the walls near some of the wall art in the alleyways that’s actually a bike trail in the alleyways it’s called the Light Bike Trail, it’s a great idea because it makes biking downtown a lot safer and also keeps the alleyways picked up and free of debris and trash
Interesting facts about the “rimrocks:” Everyone in Billings calls them “the rims.” They were formed by a Cretaceous seaway so they’re made of sandstone and you can find ancient aquatic fossils From inside the city, they are always to the north so they are a great navigational reference point People do fall off of them, mostly drunks in the middle of the night, but my grandfather actually died racing his bike in the rain and falling off the side They are a favorite spot for teenagers who drive up after sunset, hang out with their friends, or make out in the car away from parents’ eyes Usually on earth day there is an annual cleanup on the rims
Not to take away from your great comment but it is also a favorite past time of young folks to go up to the rims at night in groups and flash the city.😂😂
Just found your channel. I visited Billings in 2018 from the UK and your video did a great job of showing a city I really enjoyed. Everyone was be very friendly, must be a nice place to live.
If you ever make it back to this area of Montana, you definitely need to check out my hometown of Red Lodge and take a ride up the Beartooth Highway. I’m not sure the road is open currently as it was under 6 feet of snow a week ago……
After seeing a few more of your videos, I'M as impressed as you are by the views and grandeur. OTOH the prevailing mean spritedness of those of us who were more fortunate continues to be sad...
Hi, JOE I am from Canada 🇨🇦,I am keep watching your road trips state to state city to city town to town.what a amazing person you are,I am very impressed your efforts towards remarkable journeys.your journeys are very informative.keep up your missions.
As a kid I met an Indian who was alive at the time of the Battle and had memories of it. This was back in the late 1950's. We lived in Bozeman, Montana, and my mom was an amateur historian interested in the colonization of Montana by Catholic missionaries. We went to the reservation near Miles City where she interviewed some of the older Indians. I remember playing with the Indian kids while she was doing her thing. We got a tape recorder about that time and I'm not sure whether she had it for this particular trip. I don't recall seeing any of her notes on this meeting but it is unlikely that she got rid of them. When she died in 1991 I gave all her historical books and records to Carrol College in Helena, Montana. Anyway, my point here is that "Custer's Last Stand" was just not that long ago.
I visited Billings about a decade ago for a Billings Mustangs baseball game. The ballpark ( Dehler Park) was very nice and the "Stang Burgers" they grilled at the stand down the left field line were incredible. If I lived there, I would buy season tickets.
our baseball culture is possibly the best hope for a major league team in Montana ever, check out the measurements of our park, we are MLB ready! during the pandemic, and the royals didn't have a home park state side, I was begging for them here
@@kenrowe8533 Billings doesn't have enough people to support a major league baseball team. The population of the entire State of Montana is just a little over one million. The smallest market in Major League Baseball is Kansas City with a metro population of 2.17 million. If Billings and its surrounding towns ever reached that population, you probably wouldn't want to live there anymore.
@@kenrowe8533 Ha-ha! Well, by the time that happens, Montana will have oceanfront property and there will be teams on Mars. Be happy with the Mustangs. I enjoyed the game I saw in Billings as much as I enjoy most major league games. About five or six of the Mustangs I saw at that game in 2011 eventually played for the Cincinnati Reds.
I was trying to see if I knew anyone or saw my car! Thanks for your perspective on Billings, I live 25 miles outside of it. I forget how clean and nice it is overall compared to other places. The homeless problem is there, you're likely to see more late afternoon and evening, there have been random violence from transients. Those houses by the rims do get rocks in them, mostly garages but someone a few years ago got their house crushed. They tried to sue the city and lost.
Liked and subscribed, your videos are so enjoyable to watch, great scenery, unobtrusive music and just the right amount of narrative, really well done!
I was born and raised in Billings. I left after I graduated high school in 95 and haven't been back. Thank you for making this video. I haven't seen my hometown in years.
Lived in Billings most my life and in the last decade the place has become so crime riddled it's insane. Also yes very dull and drab. Not a lot to do besides fishing and hitting a bar or casino.
@@turokl713 Having shootouts, stabbings, robberies, every single day was not normal back 2010 and before. Also look up some actual statistics it's all available with a simple Google search buddy.
@@turokl713 I live in Billings and have literally seen four dead bodies in the two years I’ve lived here 💀 and to add to that, I’ve also personally witnessed 3 high speed chases, I’ve been followed and cornered by a high violent man in the mall who was trying to force me to go home with him, I’ve had a gun pointed at me, I’ve watched dozens of car break ins, I’ve seen various cars stolen…and I literally just work and go home! I don’t even go to bars or casinos and just exist and see this stuff happen.
I was surprised to hear there's a homeless problem in Billings. For some reason, I always assumed there would be more homeless people in warmer areas of the country, because surviving the winter would be much easier.
I dont hate the homeless. I see them all the time because I live in a down town neighborhood. I live at Prairie Tower to be exact and they walk by our building at all hours but especially between 10 pm and 6 am. They're almost always one person asking for money at the Downtown Albertsons on N 27th. I know a lot of them choose that life. But I wish they'd get their lives together.
Lived in Billings for 23 years, 1994-2017. It grew a lot in that time. I hear from friends there that the crime rate has risen a lot. Some of the best medical care/facilities in the U.S.
i lived in LasVegas for 29 years and moved up here to billings one year ago and i did the same thing, i drove through the so called hood billings and i didn’t see what they were saying at all. There’s no gangs hanging on the street hustling you No homeless at every gas station itching like that it’s like if Heaven had a ghetto lol
Wow, thanks. I am a Little Big Horn enthusiast as well. I have seen a lot of videos on the battle and the battlefield, but your video is the FIRST one I have seen that mentions a horse cemetery for the 7th Cavalry Regiment horses. I didn't know it existed until you mentioned it in this video.
I'm so glad you enjoyed our beautiful magic city! if you wanted to see more of the homeless population you'd have to visit the south side of town because they tend to reside there. there are also some other hot spots for graffiti on montana avenue and various other places around town. if you come back you should explore more of the heights and the south side. if you do explore the south side, please do so in a vehicle. there's a few really good restaurants in the heights one being blues bbq and they have the best food in my opinion. thanks for visiting our city and come again soon!
p.s I made this comment before I finished watching the video so he might have already gone to the heights and south side so please don't come for me🤷♀️
August 2006, on I-90 about 15 miles east of Billings, my Jeep broke down. I ended up buying a truck in Billings and made it back to my Army base in NY. 🇺🇸
I’ve lived in MT now over 20 years and half the time in Billings surrounding areas. The history is extremely rich here. From Jesse James living on the now what’s called the South Side to an area that the Chinese and Japanese Americans were put in camp during WWII. You can never learn everything about the Magic City and it’s history. The rims on which you stood is also the first cattle/sheep trail down into Billings. If you ever have time to spend here, visit with some of its oldest residents and listen to their stories, from braving the weather at 12 in a sheep wagon, watching over large flocks of sheep, to the mine disaster outside of Red Lodge. Once the mountains call you, there is no going back.
My daughter and her family live in the Historic District, very nice area indeed. I was hoping he would drive by her house. lol Glad he drove by yours though.
My wife grew up 60 miles from Billings. I’ve got a brother and sister in law who live there. Three years ago when I was there for a wedding, I got so hammered. I had so much fun at that wedding and the free drinks too 🎉
I've lived here in Billings for about 18 years and I love it here. If you go to the West side of town, you'll see a lot of new construction and fancy buildings. A lot of people think there is nothing to do here, but there are tons of indoor and outdoor activities, especially in the West End, and more popping up with all the new businesses. Thanks for visiting our city!
All those refineries make for a strong petroleum smell in the city is what I remember when I stayed one night there last year on my way to a very expensive and no housing to be found in Bozeman.
Drove by my house...I live in South Side. Everyone in Billings rags on it but its home 💜 I was also working at one of the refineries when you visited our city! Since you mentioned the smell 🤣
Loved the way you began you vid @ the rim. You had to go up historical Zimmerman Trail. Billings itself was difficult to maneuver since it was all one way streets when we were there in ‘86. We helped with Bible School in the Heights (the wealthy side of town). I loved every minute. We were there 2-3 weeks before going to GF to meet the hubby. We stayed south of the river in a trailer park in Pryor. It had a swamp cooler - days were mild but nights were freezing in August. The Yellowstone River is so beautiful. The park backed up to it. It wasn’t like the trailer parks you see in the south. Most were retired or low income, but it was well kept & people were so nice & friendly. One of the residents let my kids stay with her while I had errands. My oldest learned to ride a bicycle there. That is the town where I put my laundry & left. Someone put them in the dryer for me as they needed t1he washer. Like I said earlier you couldn’t do that in the south. We met a couple who were taking in drug addicted babies - the mothers’ were addicts so when their babies were born they were addicts with WDs. An awesome thing to do. They weren’t special needs themselves, but definitely needed the extra attention that foster families didn’t want to deal with. Special people!!! We stopped at Custer’s Last Stand, but they have added the memorials since then. I didn’t see any horse cemetery. So much has changed. You drove from Casper to Billings & passed by Sheridan. I never saw Sheridan bc we came from Worland towards Cody & took the cut across the mountains at Shell to Ranchester. That was the most beautiful drive I’ve ever taken. But I wanted to retire to Sheridan, but hubby didn’t want to move that far north. You wouldn’t believe the people who had moved from the south to WY & MT. Everywhere we went was people from MS living there that would never move back south. Love you vids from the west. Reliving so many wonderful memories.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip it looked so clean & great streets driving. It has a VA center & hospital (my husband retired after 36 years in the military). Besides it is close enough to visit my friend Connie in Gillette. She told me when the boom happened in Gillette, it made Campbell County a very wealthy county. Campbell County is where the WY cattle wars was & Tom Horn was hung for killing a young boy. It is rich in history. The county is long & rectangular. Connie told me that there was only one school district for the county. I looked it up: Campbell County School District serves about 8700 students in 24 schools. The district covers 4,761 square miles of northeast Wyoming which makes for large spaces between our schools. WY is the last state to have a one-room schoolhouse. Ranches got together to give the rural families a school. Now everyone goes to consolidated schools (that happened all over the US. I went to a consolidated school in MS. I always wanted to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. They closed it the year I first went to WY in 1971. I was in college to get my teaching degree. Bummer! Just thought you might be interested in a little trivia.
Billings, MT resident here, things to add is that we have bars on every corner like Seattle, WA has Starbucks.. Job opportunities and housing is scarce as more out of staters make their way here. Kids and young adults lack indoor activities to do resulting in a lot of drug trafficking and drinking problems. Our public education here lacks in comparison to bigger cities (from my experience traveling). Aside from that it is a growing city with gorgeous views and only an hour drive away from fun hiking spots.
Just found your channel and watching a couple of your videos Great information!!😎😎🤠. We did a road trip from the U.K. last year. 3000 miles and 8 states… Deadwood,Billings we’re part of it😎🤠 Loved your Deadwood video as well😍
I grew up in Sheridan and live in Billings. You visited during the greenest part of the year for the drive to Billings. Good choice! Soon most areas that are not watered will be brown. Also, there was a boulder that fell off the Rims and crushed a house awhile back, so yes building against the Rims has it's risk but it's been a rare occurrence. Thanks for visiting Billings!
The rock could break. Montana is beautiful. We came in 1982 and we are still here. We have our share of homeless. go downtown in evening if the weather is not baking people today they may be on west side.
I own a long term successful business here..worked hard to get where I'm at. My point is this...the ONLY reason I'm in Billings even part time now is said business. I work in about 10 different states a lot and Billings is the most overrated overpriced so-called big city I work in. The crime has gotten so out of hand oh, we have big City crime with no big city payoff. The rent is not only insane it's absolutely ridiculous and not worth what people here are required to pay and I won't even get into the real estate market. Every year I spend less time here building my businesses elsewhere and one day will no longer be in Billings at all. Even going out to eat here is insane. Again every other big city I work in is cheaper to eat. The Silver Lining to Montana used to be you didn't have to pay to live here, but now feels you are punished to live here. I know of what I speak as I have lived and owned a business here for 30 years. Don't even get me started on the driver's it's not so much they don't know how to drive as most have no manners everybody acts as if you need over or you need out of the parking lot is a slight against them and their special. The plus side, I still work here at times and still meet some of the nicest people everyday. But the cost of living in my opinion is not worth the little that you get here. I know some people would disagree and that is their opinion
that is the thing that perplexes me about Montana, I live in Olympia which is in Western Washington, cost of living here is similar to a lot of places in Montana even less but the area I live in is urban but in Montana you pay urban prices even if you are a low population back water, for instance where I live in Olympia up to Seattle about 45 miles more people live in that small area than live in the whole state of Montana, as a matter of fact Washington almost has 7 times Montana's population
That house that you said you wanted, Ive been in it many times, had a friend who lives there for years. Lovely house but so extremely over priced. Unfortunately billings has become so over inflated with not much modernization or affordable things to do here. It’s lead to a lot of crime, drug use and young people falling down really dark rabbit holes. I love my city but it’s gotten dark over the past 10 years.
I have to say anywhere in Montana would work for me lol, I just love the state. Very cool see Custer’s last stand is really cool. My wife and I are planning a trip out west in a few years to see all this area. I think one must see it more than once in a lifetime.
3:02 native montanan here, a lot of people dont notice but if you look close ar the ground you are on, the roxks are very very smoth and you can see hoof marks, it was used as a Buffalo jump
Compared to other places in the States, Billings is looking pretty awesome....... Can't beat the outskirts or the State it's in. Overall, doing much much better than other regions. Looking forward to my visit soon! 💯
I live near Billings and today they had a "free haircuts at the park" day. From 10am-6pm I arrived at 2pm and waited in line until around 3:30 when I was told they weren't doing any more haircuts. This is just one of many different ridiculous experiences I've had in Billings MT
Looks like a real nice, if somewhat sleepy city. I would prefer a bigger city to live in but it looks like an interesting enough place to visit and I bet a cool, historic place right near downtown would make for a better than decent lifestyle. Love the trees!
Oh my goodness you couldn't even see the bear tooth mountain on the rims. You need to get back up there and look west on a clear day it's beautiful. Also it's called the south side south park is the name of the park there
im going back now and watching all the earlier vlogs that i hadnt seen prior to subbing i guess about the time that you had the mass growth in your channel. as im going backwards i see what a wise man you are when people comment like things they and even i suggest to do and you have already done and it didnt work out and you just say interesting or something like that lol.
Former Billings resident here. Billings is a god awful town to live in. Fun fact: it just won the most clinical depression per capita of any city in the U.S. Billings offers one of the states only homeless shelters, which it is the only one for about 200 miles in every direction. It also has a bus stop right downtown and it is known that other places will send their homeless to Billings. It also has one of the largest rehab facilities in the tri-state area, it also hosts Montana women’s prison. This town just attracts vagrants of all kinds. There used to be a mental health facility right downtown called the HUB which also attracted many mentally unstable individuals to the area. None of what I’m saying is without empathy; people need help with their mental issues, people need help with their addiction issues, homeless need a place to stay, but Billings just offers a terrible mix of services for the struggling with little positives to make up for it. The Crow reservation is one of the saddest reservations in the country which too just adds to the depression of this “city”. It’s just a sad fact and everyone who lives there would agree. The sugarbeet factory along with two oil refineries makes the town smell like absolute garbage half of the year as well. Billings has its own beauty don’t get me wrong, but city planners early on really messed things up with so much mixed industrial throughout the entire town. Compare Billings to any other City in Montana and you will see a vast difference in general lifestyle. Every city is going to have its problems, Billings just happens to have pretty much all the ones a small city can have all within its downtown.
Billings is a neat city in many respects, even if work there is not always the most lucrative. Though I've not lived there (I have lived in both western North Dakota and in Casper, Wyoming since 2014), I travel the region extensively for both work and for my personal photography jaunts, so it is a very familiar place indeed. Down in the South, we used to talk about going "over there to xyz-town" and it would be 30 miles. Up here, one simply adds a zero, "going over to Billings to shop" (only 300 miles instead lol). As for the Little Bighorn, it is truly a sobering place to visit... Standing atop the open hills, one realizes that there simply wasn't any real cover. Reading the markers for both the natives and for the army personnel is sobering, as well. You two covered a lot of places during a very busy trip but this region is a challenge to see well from I-90 and I-94. Consider US 2 across Montana and North Dakota sometime, as well as a jaunt into the Bighorn Basin.
I live in Billings and it's a nice place if you like the outdoors since it's rite there and the river is close. The crime is going up unfortunately but nothing like a big city for sure and the homeless hang out in specific spots so there not just everywhere down town.
That part on the river you were at is Colson Park. Where billings actualy started. Was named Colson at first then the railroad come through and the town moved over to the downtown region and was named Billings
I am a life long resident of Montana. I currently live in Billings. I am a Native American Indian woman who's roots are very deep in Montana. All I ever see is beauty living here. I will never live anywhere else ☺️. Thanks for visiting Billings please come back soon.
Thank you for your comment. I was a bit nervous about the city as I drove in and saw the refineries, but the rest of the city turned out to be beautiful. BTW, I'm a descendent of Native Americans - my grandmother was full Cherokee (she lived her life in Oklahoma).
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip that odious refinery is the smell of money and jobs. (also note: on your next trip through town in late winter be sure to get a whiff of the sugar beet factory)
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You have a very beautiful and clean town. I think I'm going to go there someday.
I just moved here a few months ago and came across some really nice people, and some really straight up rude people. So I guess like any big city you're going to have a mix. I learned quickly not to work for the Billings Public School District. Looks wise, I think Billings is just fine :-) has everything you need and considering how many people are here, the traffic is not as bad as I expected.
I am originally from Chicago. I moved here 30 years ago and do not regret the move. Looking for excitement in a city venue indicates young adults who have not yet realized you make your own excitement.
I’m from there, and returning soon-
It’s clean, people are kind, respectful, polite and friendly….
I love Montana….
Yea people nice and polite anywhere but billings...typical hick remark
Thank you for the video. It helps a soldier that misses home. In Virginia being trained as a diesel mechanic. So thank you so much. God bless you
Wow, thank you for the comment, Colton. :)
Homeless problem is a lot worse than you just seeing “one.”
Walk around at night. They usually don’t hangout on the main downtown streets due to police not allowing them to linger in front of businesses.
The City of Bozeman, another large town in Montana used to ship there homeless people into billings
I just assume every big town in the West has over a dozen homeless people roaming around at once.
@@tuurtal4507 indeed, they still do. There, or Missoula.
Yeah. You can see a lot of homeless during the day up in the heights of Billings. Around main mostly
Yeah most the homeless people don’t hang out in that part of town. They’re more near the library and stuff like that where there’s less people walking around
Fun fact: The Double Tree is the world's tallest load-bearing brick building. They don't make buildings that tall out of brick anymore!
My grandpa helped build that building
Yeah! And the tallest brick structure is the smelter in anaconda!
@@tuurtal4507 Woah! Is your grandpa still alive?
Yeah maybe
My dad is on the city council in Billings and I am currently running for one of the state senate districts here in town. Love seeing an outsider's perspective because so many locals don't realize how truly wonderful it is here! Of course, we have issues like crime and homelessness that need to be addressed, but what city doesn't! Thanks so much for visiting and if you ever come back and need some good food recommendations, reach out any time!
I’m tryna get a job and move up there maybe y’all can help
City council more like shitty council. They are all corrupt in their. Bet your dad never mentions who’s payroll he’s on
@timstewart5227
Politicians don't help people.
They only help themselves to your hard earned tax money.
@@TenFalconsMusic *LOCAL* politicians are often very good, helpful people. You must only think of the national-level politicians.
I am Swedish immigrant living 50 miles north of Billings. I have been living in different places, different countries, but Montana is the best !
Thank you for beautiful video about the favorite US town!
I have also lived in many places in the world, and often research about Montana, although I have never been there.
What do you like about Montana and Billings ? Why is it your favourite town ?
I am drawn to Montana, from Europe, because I imagine it has cleabn air, few people, great nature and many things to do like hiking, camping, swimming and all that., 🇺🇸
Thank you.
@@dirkbogarde7796 fantastic nature will leave you breathtaking, great fresh air ,no crowded places,great kind people.If you aren't into city life ,Montana is the great place to live .
I love Billings because ( my own words) it is so wide spread town ,so you don't have this awful feeling that someone is literally breathing behind your neck ,as in many other US cities. And almost a you need you can get in Billings. Although it isn't a huge city ,it is the largest one in Montana and in Wyoming.
@@nemeseax7123 thanks
hi!
Must be Roundup! I lived there a long time. Now living in billings
I live right outside of Billings and its always cool to see it from a visitor's perspective. Thanks for the tour!
Billings was great! I was a bit nervous driving as I saw the refineries belching smoke (thus the title), but as I got in and explored I saw how great it is.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I've lived in really big cities (Tampa & Orlando) and find it funny when people talk about the traffic and the crime in Billings. As for the homeless problem Billings does have a good number of homeless/transient that seem to come through every Summer. When the homeless shelter was downtown on Montana Ave you would see more. They moved it over a few blocks so there aren't quite so many in the restaurant areas downtown.
Thank you for the outsiders pov. A lot of our residents don’t understand how great it is here. I think the problem is that they have no idea how crazy and bad a truly big city can be. I’ve seen it and really appreciate my hometown. I actually live in Lockwood on the other side of the river. It is classified as Billings as well. You should have drove through emerald hills for beauty and down by Dickie for not so pretty. Lol. Thanks for visiting 😊
I've laughed at people complaining about bad areas of town that would be lower middle class neighborhoods back east. They do not have a clue how good we got it...
Born and raised in Billings Mt. We call them the Rims 😁
I’m so glad I found this channel! I’ve been to a lot of big US cities, but haven’t seen a lot of these medium sized ones. Great tours, keep up the awesome work! Liked and subscribed.
Thank you for the kind words, James! We have visited most of the big cities in the US as we work to see all 50 states. We are now, however, moving into visiting smaller, lesser known cities and towns in rural America. It’s the part of our travels I have been most looking forward to getting to, and it’s what we’ll be doing from now on.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip That’s great, keep up the good work!
Love this!! Appreciate you sharing my beautiful town with people 😁😁
Thanks for doing my hometown old Billings justice.
Thanks for the video 📸
My dad was born in Billings but I've never been there. It actually looks like a nice town. Now I'm thinking 🤔 of visiting Montana because of this video.
Once again, thanks for your video
Thank you for the kind words, rga! You should visit!
I like your attitude! Welcome back anytime 😁
Thanks, Lacey! We will be back. :)
It is a beautiful city, serene with a drop dead gorgeous rock formations . And your narration is mucho mucho good. 👏👏👏👏
Back in the 1980s there was a big brush fire at the Custer battlefield and after it was all put out it was AMAZING how many artifacts they found just sitting on the ground. They called in some archeologists who were able to track the battle just from the cartridge cases they found. So for over 100 years there were hundreds of artifacts from the battle that were just laying there under the brush that no one knew were there. I think National Geographic did a documentary on the find. I remember seeing it and was pretty facinated with the whole thing.
Wow that sounds amazing. I'll have to see if I can find that!
👍Thanks. Your comment is an interesting addition to an already interesting video.👍
We drove through the Bear Tooth Pass from Yellowstone and looped around to Billings and the Crow indian reservation just south of there to visit the site of Custer's last stand in around August 1983 - we were there on a midweek day. We watched a documentary on a continuous loop at the ranger station and then walked up to the monument. There had been a prairie grass fire and the slopes around the monument were still smoldering. Saw on the news later in our travels that some of the smoldering object were boots and other debris remaining from the battle, and that a proper archeological survey was to be done of the area. There was not another person there on the day we visited - didn't even see anyone in the ranger station. Beautiful art of the world though.
That first empty building that you showed was where I had my first job, my mom worked there for over 30 years and she had me working there on weekends when I was 14 til I graduated. It was partially a restaurant called Pug Mahons and it made the best food and had the best people. We’ve missed that place a lot since it closed.
Shay Love, I miss Pug Mahon's too. In the 90's, I used to live right across the street, in the Claire Apartments, right above the old Expert Tire shop.
Pugs was the first place mom took me to lunch when we moved there in the early 90s, it was one of those places that was a special occasion restaurant. We miss pugs like no other.
Restaurant with name KISS MY ASS (on celtic irish langauge)😂😂
I'd move there . I think it absolutely beautiful . Very serene. Thank you for such a nice tour .🏞️
Thank you for watching! 😀
I was born in Billings, but grew up in Hardin, near the Battlefield. The Battlefield area was an open playground for us in the 60's and early 70's with minimal oversight back then. A friends family owned the land outside Hardin where "Fort Custer" was built after the battle. We found the forts garbage dump in the mid 60's and spent many days digging up old artifacts...bottles, uniform scraps, leather items, ammunition cartridges, uniform buttons, and an occasional "US" Belt Buckle.
My daughter just moved to Billings and absolutely loves it. Can’t wait to visit.
I currently live in Billings and also a new subscriber, also if you ever seen the bikes on the walls near some of the wall art in the alleyways that’s actually a bike trail in the alleyways it’s called the Light Bike Trail, it’s a great idea because it makes biking downtown a lot safer and also keeps the alleyways picked up and free of debris and trash
That is awesome. Thank you for the info.
Interesting facts about the “rimrocks:”
Everyone in Billings calls them “the rims.”
They were formed by a Cretaceous seaway so they’re made of sandstone and you can find ancient aquatic fossils
From inside the city, they are always to the north so they are a great navigational reference point
People do fall off of them, mostly drunks in the middle of the night, but my grandfather actually died racing his bike in the rain and falling off the side
They are a favorite spot for teenagers who drive up after sunset, hang out with their friends, or make out in the car away from parents’ eyes
Usually on earth day there is an annual cleanup on the rims
Are you a freshman science teacher by chance?
Not to take away from your great comment but it is also a favorite past time of young folks to go up to the rims at night in groups and flash the city.😂😂
I thought the same thing when I heard say “the Rimrocks” over and over again. It’s always been “the Rims”!
There's a secret base under the airport but im not supposed to say anything about it.
Do you enjoy living in Billings ?
Just found your channel. I visited Billings in 2018 from the UK and your video did a great job of showing a city I really enjoyed. Everyone was be very friendly, must be a nice place to live.
Downtown Billings is very beautiful thanks to the efforts of the Downtown Billings Association and the awesome efforts of the Purple People crew.
If you ever make it back to this area of Montana, you definitely need to check out my hometown of Red Lodge and take a ride up the Beartooth Highway. I’m not sure the road is open currently as it was under 6 feet of snow a week ago……
We will be returning to Montana!
My Aunt used to live in Red Lodge. I think it's an awesome little town.
Hopefully by the time you are ready to come back....Red Lodge will be up and running again. We just had a major flood and destroyed the whole town :(
Did that about a month ago, was the most beautiful drive I ever have done.
not for the faint of heart though.
Beautiful Montana…so clean and peaceful….let’s just hope it stays that way.
Reminds me of Colorado before everyone decided it was a great place to live pray they don't do that to Montana like they did to my Colorado 😢
Andrew Saturn, they already are. 🙁
@@dj9841 that's a damn shame
It wont if the liberals get their way
After seeing a few more of your videos, I'M as impressed as you are by the views and grandeur. OTOH the prevailing mean spritedness of those of us who were more fortunate continues to be sad...
Hi, JOE I am from Canada 🇨🇦,I am keep watching your road trips state to state city to city town to town.what a amazing person you are,I am very impressed your efforts towards remarkable journeys.your journeys are very informative.keep up your missions.
As a kid I met an Indian who was alive at the time of the Battle and had memories of it. This was back in the late 1950's. We lived in Bozeman, Montana, and my mom was an amateur historian interested in the colonization of Montana by Catholic missionaries. We went to the reservation near Miles City where she interviewed some of the older Indians. I remember playing with the Indian kids while she was doing her thing. We got a tape recorder about that time and I'm not sure whether she had it for this particular trip. I don't recall seeing any of her notes on this meeting but it is unlikely that she got rid of them. When she died in 1991 I gave all her historical books and records to Carrol College in Helena, Montana. Anyway, my point here is that "Custer's Last Stand" was just not that long ago.
Interesting.
And I'm sure there are battle flags with the 7th on them in lodges somewhere no white man will ever see.
Just moved to Billings from Nevada a couple of months ago and so far I gotta say I love it.
Ha! Fancy seeing you here Shane!
I visited Billings about a decade ago for a Billings Mustangs baseball game. The ballpark ( Dehler Park) was very nice and the "Stang Burgers" they grilled at the stand down the left field line were incredible. If I lived there, I would buy season tickets.
our baseball culture is possibly the best hope for a major league team in Montana ever, check out the measurements of our park, we are MLB ready! during the pandemic, and the royals didn't have a home park state side, I was begging for them here
@@kenrowe8533 Billings doesn't have enough people to support a major league baseball team. The population of the entire State of Montana is just a little over one million. The smallest market in Major League Baseball is Kansas City with a metro population of 2.17 million. If Billings and its surrounding towns ever reached that population, you probably wouldn't want to live there anymore.
you're spot on, but I'm not wrong on the best chance point, and this whole area for a 500 mile radius would absolutely love a pro team, of ANY kind
@@kenrowe8533 Ha-ha! Well, by the time that happens, Montana will have oceanfront property and there will be teams on Mars. Be happy with the Mustangs. I enjoyed the game I saw in Billings as much as I enjoy most major league games. About five or six of the Mustangs I saw at that game in 2011 eventually played for the Cincinnati Reds.
a baseball fan can only hope man, thanks for coming to town and enjoying the games!
I was trying to see if I knew anyone or saw my car! Thanks for your perspective on Billings, I live 25 miles outside of it. I forget how clean and nice it is overall compared to other places. The homeless problem is there, you're likely to see more late afternoon and evening, there have been random violence from transients.
Those houses by the rims do get rocks in them, mostly garages but someone a few years ago got their house crushed. They tried to sue the city and lost.
Excellent!!!
Liked and subscribed, your videos are so enjoyable to watch, great scenery, unobtrusive music and just the right amount of narrative, really well done!
Thank you for the kind words, J Huntoon!
Thank you, had a good time.
I was born and raised in Billings. I left after I graduated high school in 95 and haven't been back. Thank you for making this video. I haven't seen my hometown in years.
Probably my favorite city I've ever been to. I did the same thing at the bluffs when I was headed out of town to get to the mountains. Lovely place
Lived in Billings most my life and in the last decade the place has become so crime riddled it's insane. Also yes very dull and drab. Not a lot to do besides fishing and hitting a bar or casino.
@@turokl713 Having shootouts, stabbings, robberies, every single day was not normal back 2010 and before. Also look up some actual statistics it's all available with a simple Google search buddy.
You just described any major city in the US
Move elsewhere and see if there's no crime there.
@@gabrielstewart3291 that's any major cities on the world lol it's not different north of the border for exemple in Calgary or Edmonton
@@turokl713 I live in Billings and have literally seen four dead bodies in the two years I’ve lived here 💀 and to add to that, I’ve also personally witnessed 3 high speed chases, I’ve been followed and cornered by a high violent man in the mall who was trying to force me to go home with him, I’ve had a gun pointed at me, I’ve watched dozens of car break ins, I’ve seen various cars stolen…and I literally just work and go home! I don’t even go to bars or casinos and just exist and see this stuff happen.
We've lived in Billings MT for 29 years, and the homeless problem is MUCH worse than this video makes it out to be.
I was surprised to hear there's a homeless problem in Billings. For some reason, I always assumed there would be more homeless people in warmer areas of the country, because surviving the winter would be much easier.
EVERY city has a problem with homelessness now - even medium sized ones.
It was bad before covid.
@@CocktailUnderground- One might think that, but they ruined our front yard sleeping in it all winter. It's disgusting. They're all over the city now.
I dont hate the homeless. I see them all the time because I live in a down town neighborhood. I live at Prairie Tower to be exact and they walk by our building at all hours but especially between 10 pm and 6 am. They're almost always one person asking for money at the Downtown Albertsons on N 27th. I know a lot of them choose that life. But I wish they'd get their lives together.
Yes, dull and drab, folks should not move here... :)
hahaha
I feel offended
Looks beautiful to me. He needs to come to Philly Haha
Why,don't you leave then???
Montana needs more poc, whole state feels like one big sundown town
Lived in Billings for 23 years, 1994-2017. It grew a lot in that time. I hear from friends there that the crime rate has risen a lot. Some of the best medical care/facilities in the U.S.
Yes, during this past year with everyone moving in it’s gone up like 2000%
i lived in LasVegas for 29 years and moved up here to billings one year ago and i did the same thing, i drove through the so called hood billings and i didn’t see what they were saying at all. There’s no gangs hanging on the street hustling you No homeless at every gas station itching like that it’s like if Heaven had a ghetto lol
it very much has its gone up by more than 16 percent in the past 2 years
Must be getting more "diversity " if the crime rate is going up
IveI lived in Montana, in Billings. I always thought that Custer got exactly what he deserved. Thank you for a great video!
Thank you, Candy!
The battle of cuisine aroma! I love it :)
Wow, thanks. I am a Little Big Horn enthusiast as well. I have seen a lot of videos on the battle and the battlefield, but your video is the FIRST one I have seen that mentions a horse cemetery for the 7th Cavalry Regiment horses. I didn't know it existed until you mentioned it in this video.
I mean, it should be acknowledged, right? :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Exactly. Good recon. I guess others just overlook it or don’t think it’s important.
I'm so glad you enjoyed our beautiful magic city! if you wanted to see more of the homeless population you'd have to visit the south side of town because they tend to reside there. there are also some other hot spots for graffiti on montana avenue and various other places around town. if you come back you should explore more of the heights and the south side. if you do explore the south side, please do so in a vehicle. there's a few really good restaurants in the heights one being blues bbq and they have the best food in my opinion. thanks for visiting our city and come again soon!
p.s I made this comment before I finished watching the video so he might have already gone to the heights and south side so please don't come for me🤷♀️
August 2006, on I-90 about 15 miles east of Billings, my Jeep broke down. I ended up buying a truck in Billings and made it back to my Army base in NY. 🇺🇸
Fort Drum
I’ve lived in MT now over 20 years and half the time in Billings surrounding areas. The history is extremely rich here. From Jesse James living on the now what’s called the South Side to an area that the Chinese and Japanese Americans were put in camp during WWII. You can never learn everything about the Magic City and it’s history. The rims on which you stood is also the first cattle/sheep trail down into Billings. If you ever have time to spend here, visit with some of its oldest residents and listen to their stories, from braving the weather at 12 in a sheep wagon, watching over large flocks of sheep, to the mine disaster outside of Red Lodge. Once the mountains call you, there is no going back.
Have traveled this same route many times... between Sheridan and Little bighorn Battlefield the scenery is the best...!!
Great video! Thanks.
Good video edit.
I’ve spent time in Billings. Real neat downtown! It’s quiet in the mornings, good for a nice walk.
Well dang. Lived right down the road. Alil place called Roundup. Brings back good memories 👍🏻
I moved to Billings, in 2018.....one of best places I have lived....retired US Army.....
Dont get out much huh Marc ?.
You drove right by my house, in the Historic District!!! 😄 Thank you for your positive outlook on my city!
My daughter and her family live in the Historic District, very nice area indeed. I was hoping he would drive by her house. lol Glad he drove by yours though.
My wife grew up 60 miles from Billings.
I’ve got a brother and sister in law who live there.
Three years ago when I was there for a wedding, I got so hammered. I had so much fun at that wedding and the free drinks too 🎉
Billings looks like a nice city, Thanks for posting.
It really is.
Lived in Billings for 4 years. Still Love the place. Still Love the people. Still Love the Lifestyle. I may retire here !!
Good Depiction my Friend.
I've lived here in Billings for about 18 years and I love it here. If you go to the West side of town, you'll see a lot of new construction and fancy buildings. A lot of people think there is nothing to do here, but there are tons of indoor and outdoor activities, especially in the West End, and more popping up with all the new businesses. Thanks for visiting our city!
All those refineries make for a strong petroleum smell in the city is what I remember when I stayed one night there last year on my way to a very expensive and no housing to be found in Bozeman.
Drove by my house...I live in South Side. Everyone in Billings rags on it but its home 💜
I was also working at one of the refineries when you visited our city! Since you mentioned the smell 🤣
I live in Bill8ngs...Thanks for visiting...Come back sometime!!!!
Loved the way you began you vid @ the rim. You had to go up historical Zimmerman Trail. Billings itself was difficult to maneuver since it was all one way streets when we were there in ‘86. We helped with Bible School in the Heights (the wealthy side of town). I loved every minute. We were there 2-3 weeks before going to GF to meet the hubby. We stayed south of the river in a trailer park in Pryor. It had a swamp cooler - days were mild but nights were freezing in August. The Yellowstone River is so beautiful. The park backed up to it. It wasn’t like the trailer parks you see in the south. Most were retired or low income, but it was well kept & people were so nice & friendly. One of the residents let my kids stay with her while I had errands. My oldest learned to ride a bicycle there.
That is the town where I put my laundry & left. Someone put them in the dryer for me as they needed t1he washer. Like I said earlier you couldn’t do that in the south. We met a couple who were taking in drug addicted babies - the mothers’ were addicts so when their babies were born they were addicts with WDs. An awesome thing to do. They weren’t special needs themselves, but definitely needed the extra attention that foster families didn’t want to deal with. Special people!!!
We stopped at Custer’s Last Stand, but they have added the memorials since then. I didn’t see any horse cemetery. So much has changed.
You drove from Casper to Billings & passed by Sheridan. I never saw Sheridan bc we came from Worland towards Cody & took the cut across the mountains at Shell to Ranchester. That was the most beautiful drive I’ve ever taken. But I wanted to retire to Sheridan, but hubby didn’t want to move that far north. You wouldn’t believe the people who had moved from the south to WY & MT. Everywhere we went was people from MS living there that would never move back south.
Love you vids from the west. Reliving so many wonderful memories.
Thank you for the great comment! We will be visiting Sheridan in time.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip it looked so clean & great streets driving. It has a VA center & hospital (my husband retired after 36 years in the military). Besides it is close enough to visit my friend Connie in Gillette. She told me when the boom happened in Gillette, it made Campbell County a very wealthy county. Campbell County is where the WY cattle wars was & Tom Horn was hung for killing a young boy. It is rich in history.
The county is long & rectangular. Connie told me that there was only one school district for the county. I looked it up: Campbell County School District serves about 8700 students in 24 schools. The district covers 4,761 square miles of northeast Wyoming which makes for large spaces between our schools.
WY is the last state to have a one-room schoolhouse. Ranches got together to give the rural families a school. Now everyone goes to consolidated schools (that happened all over the US. I went to a consolidated school in MS. I always wanted to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. They closed it the year I first went to WY in 1971. I was in college to get my teaching degree. Bummer!
Just thought you might be interested in a little trivia.
I love the background music💙🥳 very relaxing
Gorgeous state :) I look forward to visiting one day.
Such majestic views
Amazing!! Thank you ^^
Billings, MT resident here, things to add is that we have bars on every corner like Seattle, WA has Starbucks.. Job opportunities and housing is scarce as more out of staters make their way here. Kids and young adults lack indoor activities to do resulting in a lot of drug trafficking and drinking problems. Our public education here lacks in comparison to bigger cities (from my experience traveling). Aside from that it is a growing city with gorgeous views and only an hour drive away from fun hiking spots.
I HATE BILLINGS
Way to sugar cote it!
Just found your channel and watching a couple of your videos
Great information!!😎😎🤠. We did a road trip from the U.K. last year. 3000 miles and 8 states… Deadwood,Billings we’re part of it😎🤠
Loved your Deadwood video as well😍
Cool!
I didnt know they built a road from the UK to the US. When was that built?
@@dopeMike_ google it
I grew up in Sheridan and live in Billings. You visited during the greenest part of the year for the drive to Billings. Good choice! Soon most areas that are not watered will be brown. Also, there was a boulder that fell off the Rims and crushed a house awhile back, so yes building against the Rims has it's risk but it's been a rare occurrence.
Thanks for visiting Billings!
I really enjoyed the city.
He came in June! The GREENEST Month of the Year!!!😜 ( I live in the Heights 😉)
@@prayonkreutz2398 right?! Made that drive between Casper and Billings look good!
Thats why the smart wealth people build on top of the Rims... on Granite slabs, not sand rock. All view, no worries.
@@alexsmart5452 that's all sandstone too there's no granite in Billings
The rock could break. Montana is beautiful. We came in 1982 and we are still here. We have our share of homeless. go downtown in evening if the weather is not baking people today they may be on west side.
I enjoy going to Billings every summer before heading out to go fly fishing. Great town.
The Graffiti downtown was painted by the Underground Culture Krew, it was allowed by the business owners downtown
It was awesome.
I love our graffiti!
I own a long term successful business here..worked hard to get where I'm at. My point is this...the ONLY reason I'm in Billings even part time now is said business. I work in about 10 different states a lot and Billings is the most overrated overpriced so-called big city I work in. The crime has gotten so out of hand oh, we have big City crime with no big city payoff. The rent is not only insane it's absolutely ridiculous and not worth what people here are required to pay and I won't even get into the real estate market. Every year I spend less time here building my businesses elsewhere and one day will no longer be in Billings at all. Even going out to eat here is insane. Again every other big city I work in is cheaper to eat. The Silver Lining to Montana used to be you didn't have to pay to live here, but now feels you are punished to live here. I know of what I speak as I have lived and owned a business here for 30 years. Don't even get me started on the driver's it's not so much they don't know how to drive as most have no manners everybody acts as if you need over or you need out of the parking lot is a slight against them and their special. The plus side, I still work here at times and still meet some of the nicest people everyday. But the cost of living in my opinion is not worth the little that you get here. I know some people would disagree and that is their opinion
thanks for your persistence and endurance. there are a few petty ppl in blgs
And who or what would you attribute the crime,costs and change in living quality to.?
Small town crime is the worst type. Stop calling violence, junkies and perverts big city.
that is the thing that perplexes me about Montana, I live in Olympia which is in Western Washington, cost of living here is similar to a lot of places in Montana even less but the area I live in is urban but in Montana you pay urban prices even if you are a low population back water, for instance where I live in Olympia up to Seattle about 45 miles more people live in that small area than live in the whole state of Montana, as a matter of fact Washington almost has 7 times Montana's population
Completely agree, moved to Billings after living in Missoula and whitefish, I can’t wait to get back to that side of the state.
My art class from rocky mountain college painted some of the downtown murals
That house that you said you wanted, Ive been in it many times, had a friend who lives there for years. Lovely house but so extremely over priced. Unfortunately billings has become so over inflated with not much modernization or affordable things to do here. It’s lead to a lot of crime, drug use and young people falling down really dark rabbit holes. I love my city but it’s gotten dark over the past 10 years.
I have to say anywhere in Montana would work for me lol, I just love the state. Very cool see Custer’s last stand is really cool. My wife and I are planning a trip out west in a few years to see all this area. I think one must see it more than once in a lifetime.
Montana is shockingly beautiful, key.
In respect for my Native American friends, it's called, "The Battle of the Little Bighorn".
@@dj9841 yes we know what it was called that.
Glad you liked our little city.
3:02 native montanan here, a lot of people dont notice but if you look close ar the ground you are on, the roxks are very very smoth and you can see hoof marks, it was used as a Buffalo jump
Compared to other places in the States, Billings is looking pretty awesome....... Can't beat the outskirts or the State it's in. Overall, doing much much better than other regions. Looking forward to my visit soon! 💯
Yes, It's defiantly on my list of places to see. Thank's for the upload.
I live near Billings and today they had a "free haircuts at the park" day. From 10am-6pm I arrived at 2pm and waited in line until around 3:30 when I was told they weren't doing any more haircuts. This is just one of many different ridiculous experiences I've had in Billings MT
What a beautiful place to live! Or even visit. Never been this far west. R
That "clean alley" was behind the Hart Albin building where our offices are located! Thanks for visiting, and we'd welcome you back any time :)
Looks like a real nice, if somewhat sleepy city. I would prefer a bigger city to live in but it looks like an interesting enough place to visit and I bet a cool, historic place right near downtown would make for a better than decent lifestyle. Love the trees!
I certainly hope that no lawyers were harmed during this production.😂😂😂😂
We load cream out of the milk plant in Billings, literally a block away is a gym I use to go to! Really a cool city!
Oh my goodness you couldn't even see the bear tooth mountain on the rims. You need to get back up there and look west on a clear day it's beautiful. Also it's called the south side south park is the name of the park there
im going back now and watching all the earlier vlogs that i hadnt seen prior to subbing i guess about the time that you had the mass growth in your channel. as im going backwards i see what a wise man you are when people comment like things they and even i suggest to do and you have already done and it didnt work out and you just say interesting or something like that lol.
Rands custom hats is in Billings too! Awesome place to visit!
Beautiful city and area. The mountain states are the most beautiful imo in the us.
Former Billings resident here.
Billings is a god awful town to live in.
Fun fact: it just won the most clinical depression per capita of any city in the U.S.
Billings offers one of the states only homeless shelters, which it is the only one for about 200 miles in every direction. It also has a bus stop right downtown and it is known that other places will send their homeless to Billings. It also has one of the largest rehab facilities in the tri-state area, it also hosts Montana women’s prison. This town just attracts vagrants of all kinds. There used to be a mental health facility right downtown called the HUB which also attracted many mentally unstable individuals to the area. None of what I’m saying is without empathy; people need help with their mental issues, people need help with their addiction issues, homeless need a place to stay, but Billings just offers a terrible mix of services for the struggling with little positives to make up for it.
The Crow reservation is one of the saddest reservations in the country which too just adds to the depression of this “city”.
It’s just a sad fact and everyone who lives there would agree.
The sugarbeet factory along with two oil refineries makes the town smell like absolute garbage half of the year as well.
Billings has its own beauty don’t get me wrong, but city planners early on really messed things up with so much mixed industrial throughout the entire town.
Compare Billings to any other City in Montana and you will see a vast difference in general lifestyle. Every city is going to have its problems, Billings just happens to have pretty much all the ones a small city can have all within its downtown.
Montana seems like a beautiful state. I don't know if I would want to walk along that cliff. Nice view of the city from above though.
That downtown looks pretty "dead". But that's OK. I love Montana. Imagine that place in the dead of winter though 😱.
Keep up the good work !
It gets pretty busy around 5pm!
It was before lunchtime on a weekday so it was probably the quietest it gets.
Not a dead town .it's good place to be .I would enjoy going to billing Montana.👍😎
Billings is a neat city in many respects, even if work there is not always the most lucrative. Though I've not lived there (I have lived in both western North Dakota and in Casper, Wyoming since 2014), I travel the region extensively for both work and for my personal photography jaunts, so it is a very familiar place indeed. Down in the South, we used to talk about going "over there to xyz-town" and it would be 30 miles. Up here, one simply adds a zero, "going over to Billings to shop" (only 300 miles instead lol).
As for the Little Bighorn, it is truly a sobering place to visit... Standing atop the open hills, one realizes that there simply wasn't any real cover. Reading the markers for both the natives and for the army personnel is sobering, as well.
You two covered a lot of places during a very busy trip but this region is a challenge to see well from I-90 and I-94. Consider US 2 across Montana and North Dakota sometime, as well as a jaunt into the Bighorn Basin.
I live in Billings and it's a nice place if you like the outdoors since it's rite there and the river is close. The crime is going up unfortunately but nothing like a big city for sure and the homeless hang out in specific spots so there not just everywhere down town.
Billings is a great town.
That part on the river you were at is Colson Park. Where billings actualy started. Was named Colson at first then the railroad come through and the town moved over to the downtown region and was named Billings
Gorgeous!
I used to work a Jake's downtown, Billings is fun you just gotta know where to go.