Road Trips Winter Edition
Ski, sled, soak and stay on the Flathead
Why your business belongs in the winter guide to the Flathead and Glacier's west side, and where you'd fit.
On newsstands December 15 through March 15, 2027
Ski it. Snowshoe it. Mush it. Soak it. The Flathead in winter, and there’s still room in the guide.
Road Trips Winter Edition is a guide to doing winter on the Flathead and Glacier's west side: the mountain, the trails, the sled dogs, the warm-up spots and the places to stay. It's 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 come up for a winter weekend. The listing tells them who to call.
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 listing 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 Winter Edition, built for the phone in a jacket pocket. Visitors browse by base camp and activity, tap for directions and send their day to Google Maps, with your name and logo on the map right where they're headed. 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 Pick$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
- Trail Marker$150 value FREE
We keep sending visitors your way.
Road Trips has its own place in everything we publish. For at least 12 months this guide 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 winter on the Flathead.
- 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: the map and base camps first, then the mountain, off the lifts, warming up and places to stay.
Four ways into the section
The same story 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
Up to 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.
