Bozeman sits at the intersection of the outdoors and the intellectual. The Museum of the Rockies holds one of the world's great dinosaur fossil collections, downtown's Main Street offers a compact and genuinely lively strip of independent businesses, and the mountains are right there — Bridger Bowl for skiing, Hyalite Canyon for hiking and ice climbing, and Yellowstone two hours south. The city's size means that everything is accessible without the overcrowding of bigger Western destinations.