Here is the planned lineup for Spring 2027, who reads it, and where your business fits, from the stories to Road Trips.
Carrie Nation in the wettest city in America. The night the missiles at Malmstrom went quiet. Sage grouse and cranes dancing at dawn. Here is what Montana will be reading this spring, and where your business fits.
This is Joe's planned lineup. Titles, stories and bylines can change before the issue closes, and the cover shown is a mockup, not the final cover.
The hatchet-wielding temperance crusader takes on the wettest city in America, January 1910.
How Butte's shift-change ritual of a shot and a beer invented the American boilermaker.
Inside Helena's improbable archive of UFO research.
A literary tour through Montana's dawns as sage grouse, sharptails, grebes, and cranes perform.
The 60th anniversary of the March 1967 missile shutdown.
Qingming and what remains of the state's 19th-century Chinese communities in the mining-camp cemeteries.
Distinctly Montana Road Trips · Spring 2027
Every issue, Road Trips takes readers to a different part of Montana. The story gives people a reason to make the drive. The listing tells them where to stop. The Spring 2027 destination is announced soon.
Destination announced soon Road Trips goes to a different part of Montana every issue, bound into the magazine and carried to readers in every corner of the state.
Every placement comes with free enhanced digital content on Digital Road Trips, the interactive edition built for the phone in the passenger seat. A $150 to $2,495 value, included.
Each trip stays the active Road Trip for its region for at least 12 months, and we promote it to our audience for at least 12 months.
The section has a fixed number of pages, so it has a fixed number of places. Ad artwork for this issue is due February 20.
See how Road Trips worksFirst, the fit that holds for every issue. Then a few natural fits drawn from the places and subjects in this issue's stories. They are ideas to start a conversation, not placements. Where an ad runs is something our sales team works out with you.
Distinctly Montana readers actually read the magazine, and they appreciate the ads in it. Readers tell us they go looking for the businesses they find in these pages. Whatever you do and wherever you are in Montana, if you want an engaged, responsive audience, the Spring 2027 issue is good for you.
Uptown Butte bars, restaurants, lodging and shops.
Reads with Carrie Nation Comes to Butte and The Shawn O'FarrellHelena businesses, museums and anyone who trades on the city's history.
Reads with Jesse Marcel LibraryGreat Falls and Cascade County businesses.
Reads with Malmstrom UFO / SalasOutfitters, guides, lodging and gear shops near Montana's wildlife country.
Reads with Spring Courtship DisplaysMuseums, historic sites and heritage organizations in the old mining towns.
Reads with Chinese Graveyards in MontanaAd artwork for the Spring 2027 issue is due February 20. Print ads start at $645 an issue on the 2026 rate card. Veteran-owned businesses take 17.76% off every rate; non-profits take 15% off.
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Print copies and digital subscribers: Distinctly Montana Media Kit 2026, page 1. Followers: Facebook and Instagram combined, September 2026. Website visits: Google Analytics, distinctlymontana.com, September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026.
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