{"id":583,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:08","latitude":45.81260019999999855144778848625719547271728515625,"longitude":-110.88506999999998470229911617934703826904296875,"title":"Flaming Arrow Lodge","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/0ad4a73e94ddedf5ae3159afb87e6730.jpg","address":"15521 Bridger Canyon Road, Bozeman, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Breathtaking scenery forms the backdrop for this majestic mountain lodge, built by Indianapolis businessman Arthur L. McKinney on the site of a great Sioux-Nez Perce battle. In 1934, McKinney purchased this land with the intent to build a summer family business. Drawing upon Montana’s growing “dude ranch” enterprises, his idea was to establish a boys’ camp, theater colony, and school for the arts. Walter Diteman, formerly of the 7-Up dude ranch near Lincoln, signed on as supervisor. The project was a boon to the local economy, providing jobs for 75 men. Under Diteman’s capable direction, workers with horse teams fought the primitive road to the non-mechanized building site, and the McKinneys’ rough sketches began to take form. By the spring of 1935 the lodge, ten cabins, a theater seating 1,000, and a private residence stood ready. Further plans for the camp came to a halt when Arthur McKinney died in May. The existing facilities opened the following Thanksgiving to winter sports (which initially included a spectacular ski jump inside the theater), an unplanned use that later expanded. During the 1940s and 1950s, Evan and Erwin Lachenmaier ran a year-round dude ranch here. The home was eventually sold separately and from 1956 to the mid-1970s, the lodge served something of its original purpose as a Boy Scout camp. Today the Flaming Arrow Lodge, named after the ceremony of truce that supposedly ended the legendary battle, remains a masterpiece of Western Rustic architecture and a hospitable cornerstone of this historic recreational area.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/3202578f-9711-48ec-bcdd-b1796f1b5aba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Flaming Arrow Lodge</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/4078620f-8170-4bc4-a2c8-dda4cb9676a5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Flaming Arrow Lodge</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/0ad4a73e94ddedf5ae3159afb87e6730.jpg":{"id":3907,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Flaming Arrow Lodge","description":"Flaming Arrow Lodge. Front to side view of the lodge, facing northwest. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Jan. 1994 | Ken and Ellen Sievert","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/0ad4a73e94ddedf5ae3159afb87e6730.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/c4f125322b01318bad477791e6cd30dd.jpg":{"id":3908,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Flaming Arrow Lodge","description":"Flaming Arrow Lodge. Front to side view of the lodge, facing northeast. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Jan. 1994 | Ken and Ellen Sievert","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/c4f125322b01318bad477791e6cd30dd.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/52b2e7add01b6a17395d6f1370d7f1b7.jpg":{"id":3909,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Flaming Arrow Lodge","description":"Flaming Arrow Lodge. Front to side view of the lodge, facing north. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Jan. 1994 | Ken and Ellen Sievert","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/52b2e7add01b6a17395d6f1370d7f1b7.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/c7c100098dc07a053b7edb203c7a1e1f.jpg":{"id":3910,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Flaming Arrow Lodge","description":"Flaming Arrow Lodge. Rear view of the lodge, facing south. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Jan. 1994 | Ken and Ellen Sievert","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/c7c100098dc07a053b7edb203c7a1e1f.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/a0e5f8514a835abafe6c166df13c0000.jpg":{"id":3911,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Flaming Arrow Lodge","description":"Flaming Arrow Lodge. Side view of the lodge. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Jan. 1994 | Ken and Ellen Sievert","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/a0e5f8514a835abafe6c166df13c0000.jpg"}}}