Join us for for Missoula’s 43rd Annual Old-Fashioned 4th of July Celebration on Thursday, July 4.

The pancake breakfast put on by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints kicks off the celebration from 8:00 until 11:00.

Festivities begin at 10am and includes musical entertainment by Smith and McKay All Day, Bases Covered, and Rotgut Wines.

Additional offerings include:

•Model trains & ham radios
•Old-fashioned children’s games
•Food trucks & ice cream
•Scavenger hunt (for adults, too)
•Living history tours of the lookout, schoolhouse, Drummond Depot, Trolley Barn, & locomotive
•Historic steam-engine sawmill demos
•Antique engine displays
•Missoula Fire Trucks
•Historical surveying and MT genealogy Model Railroad Displays
•Craft vendors
•Activity Booths hosted by various groups
•Big Sky Breakout Escape Games
•Horse-drawn wagon rides
•Special goings all day at the Homestead Cabin with games, hands-on activities, and demonstrators
•Miniature ponies and farm animals
•Dunk Tank!
•Cold beer provided by Bayern Brewing
•Model Railroad Displays

Admission is $5/adults, $3/seniors, $2/students, and $15/family
The Pancake Breakfast: $5/adult or $20/family (includes admission for the day).

Premiere sponsors are Good Food Store, JT Zinn Insurance, Cherry Creek Radio, A & E Architects, Northern Rockies Heritage Center, Missoula Current, Pepsi-Cola, and Missoula Broadcast Company (U104.5 and Trail 103.3).

Additional sponsors are: Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History, OZ Architects, Murdoch’s Home and Ranch Supply, Mountain Press Publishing, The Green Light, Bayern Brewing, and Rocky Mountain School of Photography.

The party goes on rain or shine. Follow the signs and remember all roads lead to fun here at the Historical Museum!