A classic downtown, a pristine river, galleries galore, and people working to win you over. What’s not to like?
Robyn Erlenbush
CRS, GRI, CRB, Broker Owner
Phone: (406) 586-1321
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I live in a town of 7,300 at the head of a valley named Paradise in southwestern Montana, just an hour north of a world-renowned natural wonder. "Yellowstone National Park—gateway to Livingston" is the town’s unofficial motto, and that sidelong boast might be grating if it weren’t in part true.
The park claims geysers and bison and wolves and waterfalls—all spectacular. But Livingston is full of exceptional people, and it seems most excel at some kind of art. I know sculptors, boat builders, flytiers, novelists, wood carvers, painters, furniture makers, photographers, movie stars, river guides, chefs, and lithographers.
Take my landlord, John Bailey, perhaps the world’s most famous fly fisherman. His dad started Dan Bailey’s Fly Shop in 1938 and it’s still a going concern. If you’ve ever watched Bailey lay a perfectly arched 50-foot line over a pod of rising trout, you know he’s an artist with the rest of them. As an adviser on Robert Redford’s A River Runs Through It, he helped edit the fishing scenes and taught the cast to cast.
"Nowhere — and I mean nowhere—has the tremendous variety of water we have in Livingston," says Bailey, who has hooked fish from Bhutan to Belize. "Right out our back door we have spring creeks, mountain streams like Mill Creek, big rivers like the Yellowstone—where I fish year round. I’ve never been anywhere in the world that would take me away from here."
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