38th Annual MDA Membership BBQ Step right up, folks, and welcome to the greatest BBQ on earth at Caras Park! It's time for the ultimate summer-time BBQ! Held right in the heart of our community in Caras Park, the MDA will be celebrating our members and all of the ways they enhance our Downtown through...
The Hotels and Hooligans tour explores Missoula’s daily life during the city’s railroad boom, as well as some of the everyday culture of people living here. The Courthouse and Missoula’s railroad hotel district will also be explored for their scandals and seediness. The tour will start at 4:00 pm at the statue of Captain John...
Experience the parts unseen in Downtown Missoula! This tour explores a holistic look at downtown life during Missoula’s transition from a marginal frontier town to a major local economic and cultural center from 1880 to 1920. The tour starts at Caras Park and lasts approximately 2 hours. This tour is not fully ADA accessible. Please...
From 1889-1917, West Front and Main Streets became home to a vibrant ‘red light’ community of working women, Chinese laborers, African American soldiers, and immigrants who built the environment we as Missoulians have come to love today. This tour discusses the district through the historical lenses of sex, race, class, and occupation in order to...
Come along on this tour to explore the story of Greenough Park, from the Greenough family (and their massive mansion) who donated the land, to the controversies over park management, including the park’s infamous “bear cage.” From Greenough, we’ll travel to the sites of Native American encampments, and old streetcar crossings, then explore the historic...
Experience the parts unseen in Downtown Missoula! This tour explores a holistic look at downtown life during Missoula’s transition from a marginal frontier town to a major local economic and cultural center from 1880 to 1920. The tour starts at Caras Park and lasts approximately 2 hours. This tour is not fully ADA accessible. Please...
From 1889-1917, West Front and Main Streets became home to a vibrant ‘red light’ community of working women, Chinese laborers, African American soldiers, and immigrants who built the environment we as Missoulians have come to love today. This tour discusses the district through the historical lenses of sex, race, class, and occupation in order to...
Come along on this tour to explore the story of Greenough Park, from the Greenough family (and their massive mansion) who donated the land, to the controversies over park management, including the park’s infamous “bear cage.” From Greenough, we’ll travel to the sites of Native American encampments, and old streetcar crossings, then explore the historic...
From 1889-1917, West Front and Main Streets became home to a vibrant ‘red light’ community of working women, Chinese laborers, African American soldiers, and immigrants who built the environment we as Missoulians have come to love today. This tour discusses the district through the historical lenses of sex, race, class, and occupation in order to...
From 1889-1917, West Front and Main Streets became home to a vibrant ‘red light’ community of working women, Chinese laborers, African American soldiers, and immigrants who built the environment we as Missoulians have come to love today. This tour discusses the district through the historical lenses of sex, race, class, and occupation in order to...
