Once the excess and gluttony of the Christmas season has ended, it is the time to enter the resolution making portion of our holiday adventures. In other words, it is time to celebrate the new year! We at Sweet Home Montana aren’t entirely sure how welcoming the new year with a bunch of promises that we will do better than we did in the old one came about, and since we tend to break those promises in the first weeks of the new month, we aren’t entirely sure that it does any good. But we do like the idea of making a New Year’s resolution to travel to our West Yellowstone hometown, and if that is one thing you have resolved to do, we have created this guide to a West Yellowstone getaway, enabling you to keep at least one resolution in 2025.
Early Resolutions
Obviously, you don’t want to wait until New Year’s Eve to start making those resolutions; a lot of thought must go into each one you make, and the champagne can interfere with your critical thinking process. So we suggest you start early, perhaps enter the planning stages during the Christmas chaos and making your West Yellowstone vacation the last one of 2024 and the first one of 2025. It will still be cold and snowy here and your daytime adventures may run to snowshoeing or cross country skiing, helping you keep another resolution you may have made, that of moving more.
Resolve to Eat Well
We think using the word well over better changes the meaning of your resolution, encouraging resolution makers to explore the better restaurants, including our very own Madison Crossing Lounge. Located at 121 Madison Avenue inside what was once a schoolhouse, the menu is an all-American one filled with winter hearty warmth, including bison nachos on the appetizer menu and an elk rack that has to be tasted to be believed. And because eating well means you should never skip dessert (Liking this resolution more and more, aren’t you?), we suggest entering the new year with a slice of their amazing olive oil cake topped with brown butter icing. 2025 is destined to be the most delicious year when you say farewell to 2024 at the Madison Crossing Lounge.
Don’t Be a Stranger
It can be awkward visiting a bar in a small town, especially as everyone in there probably already knows each other, but in West Yellowstone, we have never met a stranger. The Buffalo Bar, 335 US-20, is where you can celebrate with your new friends, sipping the night away and raising a toast to 2025 when the clock strikes 12. Cheers that wish all a Happy New Year may also help you feel welcomed to Yellowstone! Offering a Western theme, accented by wildlife of all sorts (and yes, that includes the buffalo for which it is named), the bar also offers a room filled with video slot machines for your entertainment pleasure. If you choose the Buffalo Bar dining, we recommend trying their Buffalo Balls, which is not what you may think it is. Simply two meatballs topped with sauteed onions and mushrooms and served over skin on red potatoes, the dish is hearty, delicious, and will make a statement when you announce what you devoured on your favorite social media site!
A Christmas Present to Yourself?
Although much of what we are sharing with you will revolve around the new year, maybe your resolution to travel to West Yellowstone comes in the form of a Christmas present to yourself and your adventures are scheduled to begin well into the new year. Spring in our neck of the woods can bring a delightful adventure that still maintains the fewer tourists feel, while also giving travelers the first peek at baby, well, everything! The bear cubs will be frolicking, the bison babies will be adorable, and the gates of the West Entrance to Yellowstone National Park will open on the third Friday of April promptly at 8 AM. If you have visited in the summer months, the difference between high tourist season and spring will be noticeable, perhaps making you feel as if the park is yours for the day!
Happy New Year from Sweet Home Montana
No matter when you choose to visit this most beautiful part of the wild west, your vacation accommodations will become an integral part of your vacation experience when you choose one of our Sweet Home Montana holiday hideaways.
Sipping hot cocoa in front of a roaring fire, playing Monopoly at the dining room table, and watching the ball drop in Times Square on state of the art televisions are some ways you can celebrate the new year. Reserve your favorite holiday hideaway today and welcome 2025 in the most comfortable of ways!