sheep_herder ★ Posted September 24, 2017 Share #1 Posted September 24, 2017 I chuckled when I was staying at The Grande Hotel in Big Timber Montana in one of the rooms with a shared bathroom across the hall. Seems some of you would not have been happy with this situation, based upon your comments in the B&B thread a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted September 24, 2017 Share #2 Posted September 24, 2017 Looks like a cool hotel, but I'm not keen on the shared bathroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretaker Posted September 24, 2017 Share #3 Posted September 24, 2017 Looks like a cool bit of Americana. I'd have no problem sharing. You might find me wandering the corridor in my jocks around 3am. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share #4 Posted September 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Caretaker said: Looks like a cool bit of Americana. I'd have no problem sharing. You might find me wandering the corridor in my jocks around 3am. I at least put on my pants when I walked across the hall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MickinMD ★ Posted September 24, 2017 Popular Post Share #5 Posted September 24, 2017 My minimalistic Montana hotel was the Range Rider Lodge in Silvergate, Montana - just outside the NE Entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Supposedly it was originally built as a brothel to service the miners during the silver rush of the early 1900's. The pictures below are from the lodge's current website. I was there in the early '90's but it looks the same from online pics and comments note the nice, small restaurant across the street is still there. Nice bar with country music. When I was there some local guy was just back from cutting a record in Nashville called "The Hung Over from Drinking Whiskey Blues" and he sang the song on the bar's stage. I only remember the final lines: "Emptyin' our glasses and kickin' cowboys' asses, in Silvergate, Montana USA." The rooms - which were only $21/night in the early 90's (vs $60 for Motel 6 in Billings, Montana) are along the edge of the 2nd floor: you can obviously hear the music (2 or 3 nights/wk) and bar noise until 2 am. There was one common bathroom on the 2nd floor: One bed, no heat despite the 40F's or 50F's nighttime temperatures, but the very thick blankets keep the cold away: When I was there the bar always had a decent number of evening customers. When I first walked in the bartender was changing arrowheads on his arrows because a black bear had been raiding garbage cans lately. The people I met at the bar included a guy who was a veterinarian who took people on horseback tours each morning and a guy who built log cabins as well as those underground missile silos that dot the West. Interesting conversations! One thing I learned is that log cabins were common in the area because it cost less to cut and strip trees than it did to ship in lumber to this mile-high area, accessible only by switch-back mountain roads - and you don't have to dig a footer to below the frost line for log cabins like you do for regular lumber-based homes. Of course, the scenery, the geysers, and the buffalo, elk, bear, coyote, etc. were the reasons to be there. At night the sky is so clear I mistook the planet Venus for a streetlight a block away: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted September 24, 2017 Share #6 Posted September 24, 2017 Meh...we share a toilet on those bike trips they are tiny and they don't flush...so I have no problem sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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