The Montana Folk Festival is one of the Northwest's Largest Free Outdoor Music Festivals…read more The Montana Folk Festival is held in Uptown Butte Montana, featured performances and demonstrations by over 200 of the nation's finest musicians, dancers, and craftspeople. It showcased multiple performances by more than 20 Artists/groups on six stages including a dance pavilion dedicated to participatory dancing, a family stage with performances appealing to children of all ages, and a Montana folk life stage. In addition to the performance stages, there are several themed festival areas: the Montana Folk life Area, the Family Area, two Festival Marketplaces and the Festival Food Courts. The festival site is situated in the heart of the nation's largest National Historic Landmark District in Butte, Montana. Open air and tented sites provide a variety of performance venues ranging from intimate stages to amphitheater-sized venues. The Original Stage, which offers a panoramic view of Butte's historic high rise buildings and the surrounding mountains, is located on the site of the historic Original Mine Yard, with its dramatic headframe that is a remnant of Butte's early days as an underground copper mining center. The next scheduled date of the festival is: 07/10-12/20.

Lots of fun for the family with food and rides plus lots of animals. The parking is free $12 for…read moreadults less for children $24 for unlimited rides my niece really likes the petting zoo. Nightly concerts Good Times for all

Complete chaos. No signs or designated lines for prepay tickets, so you have to wait in an…read moreextremely long line even though you prepaid online. Forty minutes in line so the kids aren't on the rides until forty five minutes after opening.Employees were not ready for opening time. Overpriced and not worth it even if it was free. No shade or benches for families in the fair area. Only tent was for the drinkers in the Biergarten. No new rides as advertised. There were less rides but the same old ones. You have to really search the website to find out anything. They don't mention the rides at all that will be there. Fair opens at 11 but rides start at 1pm yet you can't get on the rides until you wait in the long line to get in. Forty minutes wasted being herded through no designated lines. All of the ticket lines were nondescript until you got to the window which had a hand written "prepay" in marker which was small. The lines weren't moving at 1pm like they should've. Employees didn't have a scanner to scan tickets so they sent you elsewhere. Employees weren't at the rides to run the rides at opening time. There were also mechanical issues on rides and one was closed due to an issue. My children said they don't want to go to the fairgrounds ever again and I agree completely with them. There will continue to be a steep decline in fair goers due to the lack of organization, price and no one available to oversee that everything runs smoothly. The map that is handed out for the fairgrounds shows things not available like cooling stations. There are no cooling stations in the rides area. The cooling stations were on one side of the fairgrounds as per the map but did not exist. You'd think after a decade that the fair would be streamlined by now.

My husband and I made our first trip to Montana last October. I'd met Patti, the owner of Sweet…read moreGrass Wool, at Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival just a couple of weeks previously and she invited us to stop by her shop on the way to our destination. We did, and am I ever glad! To quote Patti's website: "SWEET GRASS WOOL invites you to experience the luxury of 100% Montana grown wool yarn. Targhee Sheep are the producers of this premium fleece. Bred to inhabit Montana's high mountains and rugged Eastern plains, the Targhee grows some of the whitest and softest wool to be found anywhere in the United States." Sweet Grass Wool is located in a picturesque old church that's been moved onto the property. The rooms are alive with color, some of which Patti has dyed herself. They're wonderfully arranged by fiber and weight, which makes shopping really easy. There's also fiber for spinning. Patti's dyed colors are fantastic; all are handpainted and there are wonderful colorways to choose from. There are also natural yarns and fibers to choose from so that you can dye your own if you want, or you can just leave them natural. It was a delight to stop by the shop and see the wonderful assortment of yarns. I did not leave empty-handed! Patti was a great hostess; she'd opened the shop just for us, for which I was very grateful. The shop is located right on the highway and is easy to find. It's wheelchair accessible, too. I highly recommend Sweet Grass Wools for a fantastic fiber experience!

Wonderful people. They are so helpful. They didn't have what I was looking for (Bitterroot flower…read moreseeds or plants), but they were going to contact someone to see if they could get it at this thing of the year. They had great knowledge of the plants they had and their customer service was over the top. We will be back again.

Great find, really cool little place. We went a little early in the season but still really nice ,…read morewe will be back in the summer to see everything in full bloom. Neat little cabin rentals...definitely worth the stop. We will be back for sure.