Missoula, Montana Missoula, Montana City of Missoula Downtown Missoula Missoula, Montana Official seal of Missoula, Montana Location of Missoula in Missoula County and Montana Location of Missoula in Missoula County and Montana County Missoula Body Missoula City Council Missoula Listeni/m zu l / is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Montana and is the governmental center of county of Missoula County.
It is positioned along the Clark Fork River near its confluences with the Bitterroot and Blackfoot Rivers in Montana and at the convergence of five mountain peaks, thus is often described as the "hub of five valleys". In 2015, the United States Enumeration Bureau estimated the city's populace at 71,022 and the populace of the Missoula Metropolitan Area at 114,181. In the 1990s, Missoula overtook Great Falls as Montana's second biggest city, behind Billings. Missoula is home to the University of Montana, a enhance research university.
Missoula was established in 1860 as Hellgate Trading Post while still part of Washington Territory.
By 1866, the settlement had moved east, 5 miles (8 km) upstream, and retitled Missoula Mills, later shortened to Missoula. The mills provided supplies to pioneer traveling along the Mullan Road.
The establishment of Fort Missoula in 1877 to protect pioneer further stabilized the economy.
In 1893, the Montana Legislature chose the town/city as the site for the state's first university.
By the 1990s, Missoula's lumber trade had gradually disappeared, and as of 2009, the city's biggest employers were the University of Montana, Missoula County Public Schools, and Missoula's two hospitals. The town/city is governed by a mayor council government with twelve town/city council members, two from each of the six wards.
In and around Missoula are 400 acres (160 ha) of parkland, 22 miles (35 km) of trails, and nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of open-space conservation territory with adjoining Mount Jumbo home to grazing elk and mule deer amid the winter. The town/city is also home to both Montana's biggest and its earliest active breweries as well as the Montana Grizzlies, one of the strongest college football programs in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Main article: History of Missoula, Montana Teepees at the site of Missoula, south of the Clark Fork River, facing northeast Archaeological artifacts date the Missoula Valley's earliest inhabitants to the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago with settlements as early as 3500 BCE.
Located at the confluence of five mountain valleys, the Missoula Valley was heavily traversed by small-town and distant native tribes that periodically went to the Eastern Montana plains in search of bison, dominant to conflict.
The narrow valley at Missoula's easterly entrance was so strewn with human bones from repeated ambushes that French fur trappers would later refer to this region as Porte de l'Enfer, interpreted as "Gate of Hell". Hell Gate would remain the name of the region until it was retitled "Missoula" in 1866. They twice stopped just south of Missoula at Traveler's Rest. They camped there the first time on their westbound trip in September 1805.
The Missoula Mills replaced Hell Gate Village as the economic power of the valley and replaced it as the governmental center of county in 1866.
The name "Missoula" came from the Salish name for the Clark Fork River, "nmesuletkw", which roughly translates as "place of frozen water". Fort Missoula was established in 1877 to help protect further arriving settlers.
Growth accelerated with the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883, and the Town of Missoula was chartered the same year. In 1893, Missoula was chosen as the locale of the state's first university, the University of Montana.
The need for lumber for the stockyards and its bridges spurred the opening of multiple saw mills in the region and, in turn, the beginning of Missoula's lumber industry, which remained the mainstay of the area's economy for the next hundred years. The continued economic windfall from barns assembly and lumber mills led to a further boom in Missoula's population.
Clark competed fiercely in the region over lumber share and Missoula investments. The United States Forest Service work in Missoula began in 1905. Missoula is also home of the smokejumpers' command posts and will be the site of the National Museum of Forest Service History. Nationally, there are nine Forest Service regions; Region 1 is headquartered in Missoula. Logging remained a mainstay of trade in Missoula with the groundbreaking of the Hoerner-Waldorf pulp foundry in 1956, which resulted in protests over the resultant air pollution. An article in Life periodical thirteen years later speaks of Missoulians sometimes needing to drive with headlights on amid the day to navigate through the smog. In 1979, still almost 40% of the county's workforce income came from the wood and paper products sector. The lumber trade was hit difficult by the recession of the early 1980s, and Missoula's economy began to diversify. By the early 1990s, the disappearance of many of the region's log yards, along with legislation, had helped clean the skies dramatically. As of 2009, education and healthcare were Missoula's dominant industries; the University of Montana, Missoula County Public Schools, and the city's two hospitals were the biggest employers. St.
Missoula Valley Missoula is positioned at the edge of Montana approximately 45 miles (70 km) from the Idaho border.
Approximately 13,000 years ago, the entire valley was at the bottom of Glacial Lake Missoula and as could be expected for a former lake bottom, the layout of Missoula is mostly flat and surrounded by steep hills.
Evidence of the town/city of Missoula's lake-bottom past can be seen in the form of ancient horizontal wave-cut shorelines on close-by Mount Sentinel and Mount Jumbo. At the locale of present-day University of Montana, the lake once had a depth of 950 feet (290 m). The Clark Fork River enters the Missoula Valley from the east through Hellgate Canyon after joining the close-by Blackfoot River at the site of the former Milltown Dam.
The Bitterroot River and multiple lesser tributaries join the Clark Fork on the edge of Missoula.
Located in the Northern Rockies, Missoula has a typical Rocky Mountain ecology.
The rivers around Missoula furnish nesting surroundings for bank swallows, northern rough-winged swallows and belted kingfishers.
Other native plants include wetland species such as cattails and beaked-sedge as well as shrubs and berry plants like Douglas hawthorn, chokecherry, and snowberries. To the chagrin of small-town farmers, Missoula is also home to a several noxious weeds, which multiple programs have set out to eliminate.
John's wort, and sulfur cinquefoil. Controversially, the Norway maples that line many of Missoula's older streets have also been declared an invasive species. Missoula has a semi-arid climate (Koppen climate classification BSk), with cold and moderately snowy winters, hot and dry summers, and short, crisp springs and autumns.
Climate data for Missoula, Montana (Missoula Airport) 1981 2010 normals 40.3% of Missoula inhabitants age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.
Missoula began as a trading post in the 1860s situated along the Mullan Military Road to take favor of the first route athwart the Bitterroot Mountains to the plains of Eastern Washington.
Its designation as governmental center of county in 1866 and locale of the hastily assembled Fort Missoula in 1877 ensured Missoula's status as a county-wide commercial center; a status further merged in 1883 with the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway. The barns period Missoula's trade region to cover a 150-mile radius, and Missoula's locale as the stockyards 's division point and repair shops provided hundreds of jobs.
In 1908, Missoula's locale as both a primary lumber producer and a county-wide commercial center helped territory the town/city the county-wide office for the newly establish U.S.
Forest Service created to help manage the nation's timber supply.:41 Over the next century, Missoula's various lumber industries was merged under various entities such as the Anaconda Company in the 1970s and Champion International Paper through the 1980s until most were under control of Plum Creek Timber, all the while demand in timber dropped. In 2007, a downward spiral of Missoula's lumber trade began with the closure of a plywood plant in Bonner, the closure of Bonner's sawmill in 2008, and the method of the Smurfit-Stone Container pulp foundry in 2010. Since opening in 1895, the University of Montana has had a primary impact on the evolution of Missoula's economy.
In addition to the economic favor from accommodating the student body, it gave the town/city an educated workforce not available in most of the state. The college has a close relationship with the town/city as Missoula's biggest employer and with the millions of dollars the school brings into the town/city through visitors of school-sponsored sporting and cultural affairs. The college also homes Missoula's only company incubator, the Montana Technology Enterprise Center (Mon - TEC), and a several start-up businesses. Beyond timber and education, Missoula's economic mainstay has been of one as a county-wide trade center.
Missoula has an immediate trade region of approximately 180,000 residents. The Missoula is the core of its Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Economic Area, which includes the Montana Counties of Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Ravalli, and Sanders. As of 2011, the BEA listed the economic region population at 306,050. Key businesses sectors serving the region include community care, retail shopping, transportation, financial services, government and civil services, education, affairs, arts and culture.
Health care in particular is one of Missoula's quickest burgeoning industries with St.
Patrick Hospital (western Montana's only Level II Trauma center) and the Community Medical Center already the city's second and third biggest employers behind the university. 55% of employment in Missoula is made up of the service and retail sectors.
In addition to nearly 4 million out-of-state visitors annually, which makes tourism a momentous aspect of the Missoula economy, Missoula also is home to a vibrant zone of alternative healthcare. As of 2013, Missoula ranked 299 nationally in gross urbane product with an output of $5 billion, while the city's total personal income ranked 333 at $4.18 billion, an increase of more than 47% since 2003. As of 2013, per capita personal income ranked 239 at $37,397 a year, 84% of the nationwide average. The Missoula urbane area's unemployment rate was 3.7% As of June 2015, dropping nearly 0.8% in the twelve months before . Main article: Culture in Missoula, Montana Missoula, often considered the cultural center of Montana, is the locale of the state's first university, and an eclectic mix of loggers, hippies, college students, sports fans, and retirees. Community affairs generally take place downtown either outdoors or in one of the a several downtown buildings listed on the National Historic Registry. Since 2006, the River City Roots Festival has been an event each August with music, beer, food, and art, and generally attracts crowds of 15,000. The longest-standing event downtown has been the Missoula Farmers Market that was established in 1972, which provides an supply for Western Montana produce on Saturday mornings from May to October as well as Tuesday evenings from July to early September. An arts and crafts People's Market and a Clark Fork Market run concurrently. Downtown hosts "First Friday Missoula", a loggia walk on the first Friday of the month to feature small-town art from exhibitions and arcades, such as that of Monte Dolack.
Missoula jubilates "First Night Missoula" on New Year's Eve, which includes food and live entertainment. The "Festival of the Book" to jubilate the literature of the American West was rebranded the "Montana Book Festival" in 2015. Missoula's two historic theatres both hold annual film festivals: the Roxy hosting the International Wildlife Film Festival, established in 1977 as the first juried wildlife film festival in the world; and since 2003, the Wilma accommodating the biggest film event in Montana, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. In performance arts, the Missoula Community Theatre has held performances of musical and non-musical plays since 1977, with its affiliated Missoula Children's Theatre also acting as an global touring program that visits nearly 1,000 communities per year around the world. Missoula is also home to a number of undivided dance companies, including Bare Bait Dance and Headwaters Dance Company. Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre and Garden City Ballet are also based in Missoula.
The Montana Museum of Art & Culture, which became a state exhibition in 2001, is one Montana's earliest cultural reserves, having begun in 1894; its permanent compilation of more than 10,000 initial works. The Missoula Museum of Art is homed in a former Carnegie library; it features intact art and annually features 20 25 group and solo exhibits. Fort Missoula is home to the Historic Museum, dedicated to preserving the history of Western Montana, and to the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History and the Northern Rockies Heritage Center. The National Museum of Forest Service History is constructing the National Conservation Legacy and Education Center in Missoula as well. Opened in 1987, Missoula's Bayern Brewing is the earliest active brewery in Montana. Big Sky Brewing opened in 1995 and with a manufacturing of over 38,000 barrels in 2008, it is by far Montana's biggest brewery, and produces the best-selling beer brewed in Montana, Moose Drool Brown Ale. Missoula has also been home to Kettle House Brewing since 1995 and Draught Works opened in 2011.
Big Sky, Bayern, and Kettlehouse represent the first, second, and third biggest breweries in the order given in the state of Montana. Also in 2011, Tamarack Brewing and Flathead Lake Brewing Company from close-by Lake County opened pub homes at downtown Missoula locations.
The town/city also holds annual the Garden City Brewfest and Winterfest, and also periodically hosts the Montana Brewers Festival. Missoula's celebration of the outdoors can also be seen in notable non-profits based in the town/city such as the Adventure Cycling Association, the conservationist-hunting organizations Boone and Crockett Club and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and the Outdoor Writers Association of America. In an attempt to reduce harmful emissions, the non-profit Missoula in Motion promotes surroundingally sustainable transit options for commuters, such as walking, biking, carpooling, enhance transportation, and telecommuting. Other non-profits headquartered in Missoula illustrate the city's liberal reputation in Montana.
Promoter of marijuana law reform NORML has its state command posts in Missoula, as does the Montana Hemp Council.
Forward Montana is a "left-leaning though officially nonpartisan group that seeks to engage young citizens in politics". The Montana Justice Foundation, established in 1979, is a charitable organization that helps underprivileged and underserved Montanans to access to civil legal aid.
The Western Montana Community Center supports the LGBTIQ improve and the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center focuses on "nonviolence, civil justice and surroundingal sustainability". The biggest emergency homeless shelter and soup kitchen in Montana, the Poverello Center, is also positioned in Missoula.
Missoula plays host to a range of intercollegiate, youth, and amateur sports organizations in addition to a Minor league baseball team.
The Montana Grizzlies' football and basketball squads of the University of Montana have the highest attendance.
Missoula is also home to the Missoula Osprey, a rookie partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks that plays in the Rocky Mountain-based Pioneer Baseball League.
Also competing regionally are the Hellgate Rollergirls, a roller derby team that competes at the Adams Center. Since 1977, Missoula has also held "Maggotfest", a festival-style rugby tournament hosted by the Missoula Maggots Rugby Club the first weekend in May.
In regular season play, the Missoula Maggots compete as part of the Montana Rugby Union alongside another small-town rugby team, the University of Montana Jesters. Missoula Marathon in 2009 The town/city has over 400 acres (160 ha) of parkland, 22 miles (35 km) of trails, and nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of conserved open-space. Located at the confluence of three rivers (the Clark Fork, Bitterroot, and Blackfoot), the region is also prominent for white water rafting and, thanks largely to the novel and subsequent film A River Runs Through It by Missoula native Norman Maclean, is well known for its fly fishing.
Additionally, Missoula has two aquatic parks, multiple golf courses, is home to the Adventure Cycling Association, and hosts what Runner's World called the "best overall" marathon in the U.S. There are also three ski areas inside 100 miles (160 km): Montana Snowbowl, Discovery Ski Area, and Lost Trail Powder Mountain.
A fitness of enhance parks was advanced in Missoula in 1902 with the donation by lumber baron Thomas Greenough and his wife Tessie.
They gave a 42-acre (17 ha) tract of territory along Rattlesnake Creek for Greenough Park, on the condition that "the territory forever be used as a park and for park purposes to which the citizens of Missoula may .
The park today has multiple athletic fields and courts in addition a band shell used by the Missoula City band through the summer. The Kiwanis club set up a park downtown in 1934, making Kiwanis Park the first of a string of parks which line both sides of the Clark Fork River.
Mc - Cormick and his wife is home to a skate park, aquatics center, a no-charge bike check-out and a children's fishing pond. Other prominent parks include the Jacobs Island Bark Park, a designated region for dogs to play off-leash; the Montana State veterans' memorial rose garden; Waterwise Garden, a "living laboratory" garden utilizing water conservation techniques; and Splash Montana Waterpark at Playfair Park.
The Missoula Downtown Association took over from Parks and Recreation for management of the park and made improvements to make Caras Park more event-friendly.
Large temporary tents were used for affairs until 1997 when a permanent pavilion was constructed. The park is a core of town/city festivities including include "Out to Lunch", the International Wildlife Film Festival, First Night Missoula, Garden City Brew - Fest and offered intimate concert settings for artists such as Jewel, Chris Isaak, Santana, Ziggy Marley, and B.B.
King. Located next to Caras Park is A Carousel for Missoula, a wooden, hand-carved and volunteer-built carousel; and Dragon Hollow, a children's recreational region adjoining to the carousel.
Missoula's state delegation Further information: List of mayors of Missoula, Montana Missoula county courthouse Missoula's fitness of government has changed four times since 1883 when an aldermanic form of government was allowed with the town charter.
Since January 1, 1997, Missoula has been governed in accordance with the Missoula City Charter, which calls for a mayor-council fitness of government.
Missoula's state legislative delegation is the second biggest in the Montana Legislature and is represented by districts 91 100 in the Montana House of Representatives and districts 46 50 in the Montana Senate. Having thirteen Democrats and two Republicans in its state legislative delegation, Missoula is known as a more liberal region than the rest of the state. Although Missoula's political leanings may not be unique for a college town, its initiative to make marijuana possession the lowest before ity of law enforcement in 2006, and symbolic resolutions calling on Congress to withdraw from Iraq in 2007, and to amend the U.S.
In 2011, the Montana legislature, with a Republican House majority, attempted to overturn Missoula's marijuana law and revoke its ability to have an anti-discrimination ordinance that encompassed the LGBT community.
Missoula's first school was opened in late 1869 with sixteen students from around the region and their teacher Emma C.
Slack who had come to Missoula via a two-month trip by horseback, barns , and boat from Baltimore at the invitation of her brother.
Dickinson (the first couple married in Missoula) and was replaced by Elizabeth Countryman who later married Missoula's first mayor, Frank H.
Gibson-designed Missoula County High School (now Hellgate High School) was opened in 1908. After a several expansions, Stanford University was commissioned in 1951 to problematic a master building plan to manage future growth.
It suggested purchasing territory and building an additional ground at the Garden City Airport's Hale Field, which was gradually being replaced by the Missoula County Airport, which was then southwest of town.
1912). In 1980, Missoula's third enhance high school, Big Sky, was established. Missoula's enhance schools are part of the Missoula County Public School districts 1, 4, 20, and 23. In Missoula, there are nine enhance elementary schools (kindergarten to 5th grade), three enhance middle schools (6th to 8th grades), four enhance high schools (9th to 12th grades), and three enhance schools serving kindergarten to 8th grade. Missoula also has a several private schools including an global school, religious-affiliated schools, as well as Next Step Prep, a theater academy high school directed by the Missoula Children's Theatre. The University of Montana dominates college studies in Missoula. The university, established in 1893, was Montana's first, and has the state's second-largest enrollment, with 12,922 students as of 2015). The ground homes six universities and three schools including Montana's first and only law school, the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana.
The college is also the locale of the state's Regional Federal Depository Library, and homes the state Arboretum. The University of Montana College of Technology, established in 1956 and formerly known as the Missoula Vocational Technical Center, offers fast-track learning programs.
Main article: Media in Missoula, Montana Missoula's single broadcast over air tv media market is the biggest in Montana and ranked 165 nationally in as of 2015. Although Missoula itself is second in populace to Billings, Montana, Missoula's single-broadcast over-air tv media market includes all of Missoula, Ravalli, Granite, Mineral, Lake, Flathead, and Sanders Counties in the more densely populated region of Montana and serves over 112,600 tv homes as of 2015. Missoula is home to three small-town partner channels: KPAX-TV (CBS/MTN, The CW; established 1970; channel 8), KECI-TV (NBC; established 1954 as KGVO-TV; channel 13, and KTMF-TV (ABC, FOX; established 1991; channel 23).
Also based in Missoula at the University of Montana is Montana PBS (founded 1984; channel 11).
Missoula's small-town journal the Missoulian is the biggest paper in Western Montana.
Missoula has four chief sources of print media: the Missoulian (primary daily), Missoula Independent (alternative weekly), Montana Kaimin (college), and New West (digital, progressive).
The Missoulian was established as a weekly printed announcement in 1870 as The Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer. As of 2015, the Missoulian remains Missoula's most prominent newspaper with a circulation of over 26,000, making it the third most read daily journal in Montana behind the Billings Gazette and the Great Falls Tribune.
The Missoula Independent (founded 1991) is the biggest weekly journal in Montana and the states only member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
The journal is distributed no-charge to more than 600 locations athwart Western Montana from Hamilton in the south to Whitefish in the north. The Montana Kaimin (founded 1891) is likewise distributed no-charge throughout parts of Missoula with heavy student traffic from the University of Montana where the journal is printed Monday through Friday amid the school year.
Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center" in 2000 to reflect an increasing involvement with nationwide medical research and education. The Community Medical Center and its adjoining medical facilities are positioned near Fort Missoula and is part of a undivided complex that includes a nursing home, the Missoula Crippled Children's Center, and private offices. It was established in 1922 as Thornton Hospital by doctors Will Thornton and Charles Thornton and has been at its current locale since 1972.
The center is partnered with Seattle Children's Hospital. The nearest Level I trauma center to Missoula is Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
This fitness is still maintained as an emergency backup, but was discontinued as a major source after Giardia outbreak in 1983. Since then, Missoula has relied on the Missoula Valley Aquifer as the sole origin of water. In 1889, the first electrical plant was assembled by A.
Hammond to power his primary downtown properties such as the Missoula Mercantile and the Florence Hotel.
Clark purchased the water fitness and merged it with its vast electrical holdings to problematic the Missoula Light and Water Company (ML&W) a year later. Electricity and water remained bundled after ML&W's sale to the Montana Power Company (MPC) in 1929.
In 1979, MPC sold its water utility holdings as Mountain Water Company to Park Water Company in Downey, California, which since 2011 has been a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group. In 2015, the City of Missoula was legally granted its "'right to acquire' the water fitness by exercising its power of eminent domain", but as of June 2015, that decision is under appeal. Following the deregulation of Montana's electricity market in 1997, Montana Power Company began to divest its energy business.
MPC sold substantially all its electrical generating assets to the PPL Corporation in December 1997 and its energy transmission and distribution company to North - Western Corporation in February 2002. Even with filing for bankruptcy in 2002, North - Western Corporation's subsidiary North - Western Energy is the major provider of electric and natural gas service to Missoula in addition to the Rural Utilities Service's Missoula Electric Cooperative. Trash compilation in Missoula is handled by Allied Waste Industries and Grant Creek Water Systems. Allied Waste also handles recycling through a program where customers can purchase special blue bags to designate recyclables.
Recycling has also been offered by Missoula Valley Recycling since 1992, by Garden City Recycling since 2010 which offers curbside pickup, and by Pacific Steel & Recycling which offers drop-off recycling. Sewer service is handled by the City of Missoula Wastewater Division.
See also: Buildings and structures in Missoula, Montana Higgins Block in Downtown Missoula Higgins and Frank Worden began plotting what would turn into the town of Missoula along the Mullan Military Road, which ran alongside to the Clark Fork River.
Through downtown Missoula, the route of the road is now Front Street. It is intersected by Higgins Avenue, to which a bridge athwart the Clark Fork was added in 1873.
The streets there were perpendicular to the Bitterroot Wagon Road while Judge Hiram Knowles who owned the territory just south of the river preferred the north-south plan and did not want to turn into part of South Missoula.
The rest of the city, with the exception of Downtown, where streets follow the angle of the river, and newer expansions into the hills, strictly follow the grid plan. With the establishment of the University of Montana in 1893 and the announcement that the now-defunct Milwaukee Road would be positioned south of the river, homes began to spread quickly throughout the college and south side districts.
The north side of Missoula became isolated between the Interstate and the tracks while the Greenough Mansion was moved to a South Hills golf course and converted to a restaurant.
With the release of the latest Missoula Downtown Master Plan in 2009, increased emphasis was directed toward redeveloping the North Side's former rail yard and the region just south of the tracks. The town/city is divided into 18 neighborhood councils of which all Missoula inhabitants are a member. The town/city further contains 10 historical districts: Downtown Missoula, East Pine Street, Fort Missoula, Lower Rattlesnake, Mc - Cormick, Northside, Southside, University Area and, the ground of the University of Montana. Missoula has an extensive trail fitness for both commuting and recreation that extends over 22 miles (35 km).
The heart of the Missoula Commuter Bike Network are the trails along either side of the Clark Fork River that link Downtown with encircling neighborhoods, the university, town/city parks, and outlying open space with smooth surfaces and three bicycle/pedestrian bridges.
Near the Bitterroot Branch Trail, but not connected, is the South Avenue Trail on the west side of Reserve Street that joins the Community Medical Center with Fort Missoula, close-by athletic fields, and the Bitterroot River.
Due to its non-urban location, highway access is especially meaningful to Missoula.
Interstate 90 runs east west along the northern edge of Missoula at the base of the North Hills, with all but a small portion of the town/city located south of the highway.
12, allowed by the AASHO in 1939 to extend west into Montana did not include Missoula until the highway was rerouted along State Route 6 in October 1959 and was not extended west from Missoula until 1962.
The road now crosses Missoula southwest northeast. U.S.
93 serves as a primary economic corridor for Montana connecting Missoula with the Bitterroot Valley communities to the south and Flathead Lake, Kalispell, and Glacier National Park to the north. Montana Highway 200, the longest state highway in the United States enters Missoula from the east and provides access along the Blackfoot River and a direct route to Great Falls.
Public transit in Missoula began as early as 1890 with a horse-drawn streetcar fitness (electrified in 1910) directed by the Missoula Street Railway Company that connected Downtown Missoula with the University, Bonner, the fairgrounds, and Fort Missoula.
These streetcars were then replaced by buses in 1932 due to cost. Bus service today is provided by Mountain Line, a enhance transit agency created by enhance vote in 1976 as part of the Missoula Urban Transportation District (MUTD) that began operation in December 1977.
Mountain Line operates twelve bus routes inside a 36-square-mile (93 km2) area, serving Missoula, East Missoula, Bonner, Target Range, Rattlesnake, and the airport.
Additionally the line has offered paratransit services since 1991 to assist the disabled, senior van since 2008, and has four park and ride lots throughout Missoula. Special bus service is offered to the University of Montana through three of the city's park and ride lots in addition to a late-night UDASH shuttle that offers service between the University and Downtown. As of January 2015 a three-year pilot program of zero fare transit on all Mountain Line busses began, with the goal of increasing use by 45 percent. Intercity rail travel was available from 1883, when the Northern Pacific Railway began service through Missoula, until 1979 when Amtrak discontinued its North Coast Hiawatha route athwart southern Montana.
In 1901, Northern Pacific assembled their station at the end of Higgins Avenue; since 1985, it has been on the National Register of Historic Places. A feasibility study was commissioned by Congress in 2008 to examine the merits of reopening the North Coast Hiawatha, but as of 2008, the nearest rail station to Missoula is the Whitefish station of Amtrak's Empire Builder, 136 miles (219 km) to the north. Missoula International Airport Air travel to Missoula began in 1927, which is served by Missoula International Airport at Johnson-Bell Field, a enhance airport run by the Missoula County Airport Authority.
There are direct flights year round to Billings, Denver, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and cyclicly to Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco. Four airlines operate out of Missoula (Allegiant Air, Delta Air Lines, Horizon/Alaska Airlines, and United Airlines) in addition to cargo carriers Fed - Ex Express, and UPS Airlines. The airport is also home to Homestead Helicopters and fixed base operators Minuteman Jet Center (an Avfuel fuel provider), and Northstar Jet (a Phillips 66 fuel provider).
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in Congress, was born and raised in Missoula Main article: List of citizens from Missoula, Montana Missoula has produced and been home to a number of notable individuals in varying fields.
In politics, Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in congress, was born and raised in Missoula while Senators Mike Mansfield, the U.S.'s longest serving Senate Majority Leader, and Max Baucus, Montana's longest serving U.S.
Noted athletes who were born or resided in Missoula include five Olympic medalists, Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback John Elway, and former Milwaukee Bucks coach Larry Krystowiak. Actor Dana Carvey, filmmaker David Lynch, and award winning biologist Leroy Hood were born in Missoula while Carroll O'Connor and J.
Composer David Maslanka, musician Jeff Ament, and musician and vlogger Hank Green reside in Missoula.
Academically, Missoula has been home to Nobel Prize winners Harold C.
Ross Toole Noted names in literature include Native-American poet James Welch, crime novelist James Crumley, former head of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Program Richard Hugo, and Norman Maclean, whose A River Runs Through It chronicles his life in early 20th-century Missoula.
Missoula has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Missoula's Sister City relationship with Palmerston North, New Zealand, began after Missoula resident and later University of Montana professor Harold Bockemuehl returned from obtaining his Ph - D from Massey University.
Each May, Missoula jubilates "New Zealand Day" with respect to the relationship with rugby, food, and entertainment. Missoula's second Sister City relationship began in 1991 after a Neckargemund delegation, led by Mayor Oskar Schuster, visited Missoula following a Fulbright-sponsored faculty exchange between Heidelberg University and the University of Montana.
Every September the Missoula Cultural Council holds an annual "Germanfest" to jubilate German culture and this relationship. .
The world outside, which my brother and I soon identified was full of bastards, the number increasing quickly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana.
Author Norman Maclean interval up in Missoula and wrote about it in his 1976 autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It. The work was adapted into a 1992 motion picture of the same name, directed by Robert Redford, starring Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town is the title of a 2015 book by Jon Krakauer that looked at the Justice Department's investigation into a "pattern of disrespect and indifference toward alleged victims" by Missoula law enforcement in sexual assault cases between 2010 and 2012, some involving football players from the Montana Grizzlies. While being interviewed on NPR about the book, John Krakauer stated "I don't mean to single out Missoula: Its rape rate is a little less than the nationwide average; I think its enigma with dealing with rape are pretty depressingly typical". There is a lengthy study of Missoula in the title essay of Jonathan Raban's Driving Home: An American Journey: despite writing that on his arrival, "I had the powerful impression that I had driven deep into the Rocky Mountains and somehow appeared in Rotherham or Barnsley," and that "the overall effect [of the city] was oddly unsettling; the streets too open for comfort, the town too closed in, inducing mild claustrophobia and agoraphobia at the same time", he notes the literary tradition of the town/city and its reputation as a "kindly town" (evidenced by its being a place where "odds and ends naturally collected and cohered").
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In 2015, The Humanities Montana Festival of the Book has been reestablished as the Montana Book Festival under the auspices of the Montana Book Festival Association, in conjunction with the Missoula Cultural Council.
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Back in 1870, Missoulians got their water from One-Eyed Riley and his Missoula Water Works.
Missoula's water needs were met by the Rattlesnake Creek until 1935, when five wells were added to augment fall and summer demands.
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Today the aquifer is the sole origin of water for inhabitants in the Missoula Valley.
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It is now, she said, Missoula's 'right to acquire' the water fitness by exercising its power of eminent domain.
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Born: June 2, 1955, Missoula Missoula Independent.
He was born in Missoula in 1946 I was born in October of 1938 in Missoula, Montana, a beautiful town split by a quickly flowing river and lying at the convergence of two forested mountain peaks.
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Blue Mountain is my favorite nature-walk place in the Missoula, Montana region where I live.
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Missoula resident Hank Green sat down for a face-to-face interview with President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, and the whole thing was live-streamed on You - Tube.
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Hammond Professor of Western History at the University of Montana in Missoula, to his death in 1981.
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Kenneth Ross Toole was born August 8, 1920 in Missoula, Montana.
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We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four of us in our family and had no reference to the world outside, which my brother and I soon identified was full of bastards, the number increasing quickly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana.
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