The Billings center is around the area of Billings Depot Gallery and the area of Billings Historic Depot.
The best time to visit Billings is during the summer tourist season. Although hotel rates and crowds peak during this time, the weather is warm with little rainfall. If you want to avoid excess tourists, try to book your trip in early June. Temperatures are slightly cooler with more chance of rain, but fewer people visit the city in early summer.
Billings tends to experience its first snowfall in September. Fall offers discounted hotel rates throughout town, but you'll want to plan your trip accordingly to prepare for inclement weather. By October, average snowfall in Billings amounts to about 4 inches.
Spring can also feel quite chilly with high chances of snow or rain. Average highs in April only hit 58 degrees. If you come prepared for brisk weather, spring in Billings provides a great opportunity for enjoying low hotel rates and fewer visitors.
Billings offers an array of winter activities that attracts snow sports enthusiasts from across the country. Best of all, you can enjoy rock-bottom hotel rates from November through March. Just be sure to book refundable flights and hotels in case a snowstorm threatens your travel plans.
If you qualify for a special discount, you can save even more money on your trip to Billings.
Seniors can save big at most area hotels, including Rodeway Inn Billings Logan Intl Airport Near St. Vincent Hospital. This pet-friendly hotel features a fitness center, a TV in the common area, a business center, express check-in and check-out, a roundtrip airport shuttle, and complimentary Wi-Fi. Guest rooms feature satellite TV, mini refrigerators, microwaves, hair dryers, and toiletries.
Government employees and military families can save at Country Inn & Suites by Radisson Billings MT. A highly rated convention center hotel, this property offers a 24-hour business center, express check-in and check-out, an indoor pool, a spa tub, a fitness center, complimentary Wi-Fi, and event facilities. You can also enjoy a complimentary breakfast buffet daily. Guest rooms are well appointed with LCD TVs, cable, desks, toiletries, hair dryers, and phones with free local calls.
AAA members can save at many hotels in the area, including Sleep Inn Billings. This affordable, pet-friendly hotel features a 24-hour business center, laundry services, a 24-hour airport shuttle, a complimentary breakfast buffet, a fitness center, and free Wi-Fi access. Featured guest room amenities include extended cable programming, safes, and work desks. Rooms with irons and ironing boards are also available.
Billings has many mid-range hotels priced to give you plenty of value for your dollar.
Best Western Plus Clocktower Inn is a pet-friendly option situated downtown. Enjoy an outdoor pool, a sauna, a fitness center, concierge services, an on-site restaurant and bakery, a business center, express check-in and check-out, event facilities, and an airport shuttle. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are served daily. Guest rooms feature mini fridges, coffee makers, desks, hair dryers, toiletries, and satellite TV.
Located near Alberta Bair Theater, Dude Rancher Lodge provides a rustic-elegant experience you might expect from a classic Montana lodge. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, laundry services, meeting facilities, an airport shuttle service, a cafe, limited room service, and a cooked-to-order breakfast for an additional fee. Horseback riding is also available on the property. Guest rooms are individually decorated with microwaves, mini fridges, wired and wireless internet access, flat-screen TVs, desks, and premium bedding.
When visiting Billings, you won't want to miss some of Montana's most notable attractions.
Pictograph Cave State Park is a one-of-a-kind experience where you can view ancient rock paintings and explore a scenic loop trail. The 23-acre park features interpretive displays, picnic areas, grills, a gift shop, and a must-see visitor center.
If you love historic architecture, plan a trip to Moss Mansion Museum. Built in 1903, this red-stoned mansion offers tours that capture turn-of-the-century life in Billings. Discover original furniture, draperies, fixtures, and artifacts while learning about the history of the home and the people who built it.
Other key attractions in Billings worth checking out include the Yellowstone Art Museum, ZooMontana, Western Heritage Center, and Wise Wonders Children's Museum.
Exploring everything Billings has to offer is a tall order, but planning your itinerary carefully can help you see the important sights, get back to nature, and enjoy spending time with family. Whether you're looking for a budget-friendly motel or upscale accommodations with all the amenities, you can find the perfect hotel in Billings to meet your needs and budget.
Below are reviews of the city of Billings, MT from an actual visitor's perspective.
art museum, state park, moss mansion were pretty cool.
art museum, state park, moss mansion were pretty cool.
Lava Land
Good
I'm not much for big places… but Billings has a lot of neat little shops
I'm not much for big places… but Billings has a lot of neat little shops
Jake's restaurant was amazing and very very affordable
We were there to visit a relative in the hospital where the staff was amazing and the food was great
We drive 200 one way miles for medical appointments!!
Don't know much about Billings
Watching the meth users in the parking lot next to the hotel.
The variety of shopping available.
Buffalo Block restaurant is awesome!
A nice visit with my daughter and son in law.
I love going to the mall and just shopping the windows.
Was thrr err e for work so didn't see very much of the town!!
Easy traffic
Good food! Excellent archery shoot at Superior Archery, lots of people. Many things to do in Billings in winter world.
The shopping, restaurants, skyline, multicultural.
Didn't have time to experience Billings. Only in town for the night. Montana brewery was good !
Lively and lovely. Great restaurants.
Excellent and varied restaurants. Lots of shopping and entertainment opportunities.
The wonderful cardiac hospital.
Love Montana, my home for 58 years, enjoy shopping!
Good!
The zoo, restaurants and shopping!
Enjoyed Old Town, baseball park and Jake's restaurant.
Pleasant!
How small town warmth it felt even though it is a city. People were friendly.
We loved the Farmers Market downtown and also trying some of the local restaurants.
Mustang baseball!
Lots of restaurants to choose from.
Easy to navigate.
Shopping!
NI got a good night's sleep in my room and a good breakfast in the hotel.
Great place to shop, meet friends and eat excellent food!
Pool, TV, chairs in room, big room.
It has a Dillard's store.
Restaurants and shopping!
The rich history of the city, its museums, libraries, easy to walk streets, and the beautiful mountain range always in the distance!
Everything! We had a blast!
Billings is green and busy these days. It's nice.
Elmo Park!
The room was clean, comfortable. The staff was friendly. Way better and more plentiful shopping and dining options than we have in Helena.
Nice, clean city. They have a new Costco with a gas station.
Food choices were good around the hotel.
I liked the Montana Club for dinner.
Great food and shopping!
It was close to the hospital.
Billings is a great little city with stores and shops unique to the area!
Good hotel!
Good dining!
Clean town.
Billings is a nice city. Very accommodating and friendly.
Very accessible town for semi trucks.
Love Billings, lots to do. Great shopping!
The hotel location was okay with many areas to shop and eat.
Lots of places to shop and restaurants aplenty!
Good restaurants!
Billings is big bustling city. Lots of traffic but businesses very friendly. Airport is very nice.
Our room was very clean and the beds are extremely comfortable.
The variety of shops!
Hotel was good.
Airport, restaurants and Rimrock Hike.
The Wise Wonders Science Museum was incredible for my kids! The most fun place I've taken my toddlers!
Lots to do here!
The room was very nice
Went for eye surgery, hotel was perfect for my needs!
The hotel was clean, and the room were clean and comfortable. Very friendly people in Billings town are very clean.
I really like the city. It's it was very clean and the people were very friendly.
Clean city with lots of food choices!
Wonderful
Good shopping!
I love DoubleTree's hospitality!
Lots of good dining and shopping!
LDS Temple
Proximity to Billings-Logan International Airport.
It was comfortable and clean. It is easily accessible has many wonderful places to eat and stay and also sites to see and shop,
I like the location of hotel, lots of good places to eat nearby and people are friendly.
Hotel was good!
Enjoyed shopping and looking at Christmas lights!
Billings is a fun place, I enjoyed the bar scene and the shops downtown.
Hotel is Within Walking Distance of Shopping
Scheels!!!!
We checked into the room in and it was great! Even next to restaurants!
Love all the places to eat and shop!
I went to a place right next to Billings they call The Rims - Zimmerman Trail. Beautiful!
Went to The Little Bighorn Battlefield, surprisingly good!
Billings offers a great health care facility: St. Vincent Hospital where we needed to be for my surgery.
Easy to get around in. People were very nice.
Plenty of fine dining opportunities.
Different types of food and things to do.
The atmosphere and the shopping experience!
There are a lot of shops. We enjoyed going to the mall and also we really enjoyed Red Lobster.
So much to do
This is my family home town, so it was where we chose to have our wedding. Specifically for me it was the family. For my guests, it was the Yellowstone River, the Zimmerman trail and hiking, the farms and ranches and the big sky sunsets.
Nice and quiet during the day. I had no problem sleeping. Restaurant was perfect and reasonable. Gave back all my taxes upon check out. Awesomely surprised. Definitely would stay there again.
We come to Billings sporadically and we enjoy the shopping and dining opportunities.