Places to VisitVisitors Center
While there enjoy a splendid view of the breathtaking Crazy Mountains from the covered porch. Inside, absorb as much information as your heart desires from the wide variety of guides, brochures, maps, and travel magazines about the area. Well informed Visitor Center staff are available to guide you to information and to answer any of your questions. Our Visitor Center is handicapped accessible. The Visitor Center is open during summer months Monday through Saturday from 10:00am - 4:00pm. Hours vary during off season months.
Museum
Library
Big Timber Lions Club Park
Downtown Big Timber
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Big Timber boasts western hospitality off the fast lane. In the spirit of the western tradition, the Sweet Grass County Chamber Commerce invites anyone visiting the Sweet Grass County area to join us in the cozy little log cabin that serves as our Visitor Information Center.
The Sweet Grass Museum Society has its roots in the Pioneer Society founded in the early 1900s. A permanent home was built in the 1990s and named Crazy Mountain Museum. Permanent exhibits at the museum include a detailed model of Big Timber in 1907 called The Cobblestone City, a Norwegian stabbur, and a one-room rural schoolhouse, formerly the Sourdough School. The pioneer room has many pictures and histories of early settlers. The museum is sponsoring a number of events celebrating the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery including the Lewis and Clark interpretive signs and gardens.
The Big Timber Carnegie Public Library has served the residents of Big Timber and the surrounding area since it was built in 1913 with a grant from the Andrew Carnegie Corporation as part of Carnegie’s philanthropic program to build libraries across the United States. The library is open Monday through Friday from noon to 6 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday evenings until 8 pm, and maintains an Online Public Access Catalog available for use in the library or on the web at 
Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the green grass and shade at the Big Timber Lions Club Park. The newly built 1000 Hands Play- ground, horseshoe pits, tennis courts, and public swimming pool will keep your family entertained for hours. The park is located on two city blocks between 8th and 9th Avenues and McLeod and Harris Streets in Big Timber. Enjoy the gazebo, covered picnic area, as well as the Free Spirit Bronze at the City Park and the1000 Hands Playground.
You will find friendly people and inviting shops filled with everything a person needs when you stroll through downtown Big Timber. Montana made gifts, western jeans, hardware, health foods, restaurants, and sports supplies are all within walking distance. Several of the downtown stores have kept the old look from days gone by. Check out the old Wool House near the railroad tracks. At one time, Sweet Grass County shipped 2.5 million pounds of wool a year, more wool than any other city in the US, and exported more pounds of wool than any place in the world.