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Road Trips in under two minutes
Why your business belongs on the Flathead Loop, and how to get on the map.
On newsstands December 15 through March 15, 2027
The Flathead Loop, in sixteen pages. There’s still room on the map.
A travel guide to the Flathead, bound into the Winter issue of Distinctly Montana and carried to readers in every corner of the state.
The section has a fixed number of pages, so it has a fixed number of places.
One time only. Road Trips goes to a different part of Montana every issue, and we don't know when it will be back to the Flathead.
Reserve by November 15, when we begin finalizing layout before Thanksgiving.
Written and illustrated by Montanans
FREEEvery placement comes with free enhanced digital content on Digital Road Trips. A $150 to $2,495 value, included. See it
Every page shown is a mockup drawn for this page: the listings, logos and illustrations are placeholders, and none of it runs in the magazine.
What’s in the section
The story gives people a reason to make the drive. The listing tells them where to stop.
Distinctly Montana has been published since 2001. Road Trips is a section inside the magazine: one region an issue, drawn and written by our own staff.
Everything in Distinctly Montana magazine is written, drawn and photographed by people who live here. None of it is made by AI.
Free with every placement
Your stop doesn’t end when the issue does.
Every placement comes with free enhanced digital content on Digital Road Trips.
Every Road Trips placement is also on Digital Road Trips, the interactive edition of the Flathead Loop, built for the phone in the passenger seat. Travelers follow the loop stop by stop, tap for directions and send the whole route to Google Maps, with your name and logo on the map right where the drive brings them to your door. It’s included free with every placement, at no extra cost, and Distinctly Montana promotes Road Trips to our 350,000 digital followers.
It stays the active Road Trip for the Flathead for at least 12 months, and we promote it to our audience for at least 12 months. We keep promoting it after that, because it’s great content our readers love. When we return to the Flathead, the new edition takes its place and this trip moves to our archive of past trips, still visible, usable and searchable, with your placement right where you left it.
Mockup: sample advertisers, sample map and text.
What each placement gets on Digital Road Trips, free
- Presenting Sponsor$2,495 value FREE
- Full Page$1,495 value FREE
- Signature Experience$795 value FREE
- Featured Stop$495 value FREE
- Pin-Plus$295 value FREE
- Premium Mention$250 value FREE
- Stay, Eat and Play line$195 value FREE
- Map Pin$195 value FREE
- Milepost Sponsor$150 value FREE
We keep sending travelers down this road.
Road Trips has its own place in everything we publish. For at least 12 months this trip is promoted across our Facebook, Instagram, weekly newsletter, email and website, most heavily in the launch season, and we keep promoting it after that. That’s 350,000 digital followers and 50,000 digital subscribers hearing about the drive that goes past your door.
- 13 Facebook posts
- An Instagram post
- 13 newsletter banners
- A newsletter headline story
- 3 newsletter story shares
- A dedicated email
- A feature page on distinctlymontana.com
13 Facebook posts
An Instagram post
13 newsletter banners
A newsletter headline story
3 newsletter story shares
A dedicated email
A feature page on distinctlymontana.comSample mockups: sample sponsor and wording.
Plus house ads in the magazine, banners on the Best of Montana ballot and mentions on our podcast.
Every spot you can buy, on the page it runs on
Tap any page to see it large. The section runs in order: maps and directories first, then the drive, then the itinerary.
Four ways into the section
The same narrative page, four times. Tap one to see it large.
Everything, with prices
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Talk about a block buyThe whole section, page by page
Sixteen pages, in the order they run. Tap any page to see it large. These are rough mockups drawn for this page to show the finished look; the printed section is written, drawn and photographed by Montanans.
