If I drive over to Columbus, I will take some photos and post them on my website so you can all get an idea of what the town and the park look like. If I do this soon, you have to realize that by August there will be more leaves on the trees! (It is still spring here, which means I woke up to a spring snowfall, here in the mountains.) Columbus is warmer than Bozeman because it is lower in elevation... it is out on the plains. To give you some idea of the town, there are about three pages for Columbus in the phone book. There are NO McDonald's, Burger King, WalMart, nor JC Penney. You will find a community hospital, the Stillwater county courthouse, the Yellowstone Bank, and about ten churches, with residential neighborhoods established around a ranching economy (there are two veterinary services). Billings, population about 120,000, is 40 miles East of Columbus, via a major interstate highway. Plenty of Big Macs in Billings.