Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Bozeman, Verenigde Staten

Topdrukte — reizigers noemen het hoogseizoen, Winter / Christmas break in Verenigde Staten

In januari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Yellowstone roads closed to cars (1 nov – 20 apr (meestal)), Hyalite ice-climbing season (1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal)), Deep cold snaps (15 dec – 20 feb (meestal))

Rustig — een van de slechtste maanden qua weer

In februari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Yellowstone roads closed to cars (1 nov – 20 apr (meestal)), Hyalite ice-climbing season (1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal)), Deep cold snaps (15 dec – 20 feb (meestal))

Druk — Spring break in Verenigde Staten

• Seizoen

  Mud season and the bears waking

  25 mrt – 20 mei · meestalSeizoensluitingSluitingenRisico

  The lifts shut, the valley trails turn to mud and the grizzlies come out of the dens onto the same low ground. Carry spray from April, and expect half the mountain-town businesses to take their own holiday. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Yellowstone roads closed to cars (1 nov – 20 apr (meestal)), Hyalite ice-climbing season (1 dec – 15 mrt (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In april begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Mud season and the bears waking (25 mrt – 20 mei (meestal)), Yellowstone roads closed to cars (1 nov – 20 apr (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal))

Druk — een van de beste maanden qua weer

In mei begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Mud season and the bears waking (25 mrt – 20 mei (meestal))

Topdrukte — Yellowstone gateway summer, Summer break in Verenigde Staten

• Natuur

  Mountain wildflowers

  20 jun – 5 aug · meestalWilde bloemen & bloei

  Balsamroot and lupine through the Bridgers and the Hyalite basin from late June, once the snow is off the higher trails. The whole window is about six weeks. Bron ↗

• Seizoen

  Yellowstone gateway summer

  20 jun – 25 augSchoolvakantiesDrukBoek vroeg

  Bozeman is the airport for the north end of Yellowstone, so the whole park's summer traffic passes through town. Rental cars and rooms are priced for it and the canyon road south is slow. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — Yellowstone gateway summer, Fourth of July in the mountains

• Regel

  Hoot-owl fishing restrictions

  1 jul – 5 sep · meestalSluitingen

  When the rivers run warm and low the state closes them to fishing from two in the afternoon until midnight, sometimes altogether. The Madison and the lower Gallatin get it most years; the restrictions are posted week by week. Bron ↗

• Feestdag

  Fourth of July in the mountains

  3–5 julNationale feestdagDrukBoek vroeg

  The Fourth of July weekend is one of the busiest of the mountain summer: lodging and campsites book out and roads into town are slow. Fireworks are often cancelled or replaced by drone shows when wildfire danger runs high. Bron ↗

• Risico

  Wildfire smoke

  15 jul – 15 sep · meestalRookseizoen

  Late-summer smoke from fires across Montana, Idaho and Canada settles into the valley and can hold for a week. It arrives on exactly the days that would otherwise be the clearest. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Mountain wildflowers (20 jun – 5 aug (meestal)), Yellowstone gateway summer (20 jun – 25 aug)

Topdrukte — Yellowstone gateway summer, Sweet Pea Festival

• Festival

  Sweet Pea Festival

  4–12 aug · meestalKunstenfestivalDruk

  Three days of music, theatre and art in Lindley Park on the first full weekend of August, run by volunteers since 1978. It is the weekend the town belongs to itself again. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Mountain wildflowers (20 jun – 5 aug (meestal)), Yellowstone gateway summer (20 jun – 25 aug), Hoot-owl fishing restrictions (1 jul – 5 sep (meestal)), Wildfire smoke (15 jul – 15 sep (meestal))

Druk — Summer break in Verenigde Staten

• Natuur

  Golden eagle migration

  15 sep – 31 okt · meestalDierenseizoen

  The Bridger ridge carries the largest known golden eagle migration in the lower forty-eight, counted from the ski area every autumn. Mid-October days have topped two hundred birds. Bron ↗

• Festival

  Bridger Raptor Festival

  28 sep – 6 okt · meestalDierenseizoen

  A free weekend at Bridger Bowl on the first weekend of October: live raptors, ridge hikes to the count site and talks. The eagles usually peak a fortnight after it. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Hoot-owl fishing restrictions (1 jul – 5 sep (meestal)), Wildfire smoke (15 jul – 15 sep (meestal))

Rustig — reizigers noemen het rustig

In oktober begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Golden eagle migration (15 sep – 31 okt (meestal)), Bridger Raptor Festival (28 sep – 6 okt (meestal))

Druk — Thanksgiving break in Verenigde Staten

• Sluiting

  Yellowstone roads closed to cars

  1 nov – 20 apr · meestal

  Everything but the Gardiner-to-Cooke City road shuts to wheeled traffic for the winter. From mid-December the interior reopens to snowcoach and snowmobile only, which is a booked trip rather than a drive. Bron ↗

Druk — Winter / Christmas break in Verenigde Staten, schoolvakanties in 2 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Seizoen

  Hyalite ice-climbing season

  1 dec – 15 mrt · meestalIJsseizoen

  The canyon road is plowed through the winter specifically to keep the frozen falls reachable, and there are more routes up there than anywhere else in the lower 48. It is busy at weekends and quiet midweek. Bron ↗

• Seizoen

  Ski season

  5 dec – 15 apr · meestalBoek vroeg

  Bridger Bowl runs twenty minutes from town from early December to mid-April, and Big Sky an hour south holds on later. The Ridge at Bridger needs an avalanche transceiver, not a lift ticket. Bron ↗

• Risico

  Deep cold snaps

  15 dec – 20 feb · meestalExtreme kou

  Arctic air spills over the divide a few times each winter and holds the valley below minus twenty for days. Cars need block heaters and the ski hill gets very quiet. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Yellowstone roads closed to cars (1 nov – 20 apr (meestal))