Livingston Depot Center

  The Depot is an unusually elaborate building for a small city like  Livingston. Built in the early 1900s of red and yellow brick with terra cotta details, it was the showpiece of the Northern Pacific Railroad’s gateway to Yellowstone National Park. Passengers could travel to Yellowstone from this depot until 1979. It now houses museum displays in the summer and serves as an event center in the winter.

   Exhibits cover a variety of topics including the construction of the depot, railroad workers, Yellowstone, and dude ranches but there aren’t any large text panels to tie displays in each exhibit together. Instead there are many small photographs with paragraphs of small type which are dull and tedious to read.

  The first floor of the museum is accessible but there’s a short steep ramp at the entry door which opens outward making entering difficult. The second floor has a large model train layout and is not accessible due to steps and no elevator.

   RVs will fit in the parking lot if parked lengthwise across the spaces. Use caution if you follow the RV parking signs. The farthest parking lot exit was closed off when we visited and the parking lot is too narrow to easily turn around. Park on West Park Street (no sidewalk) parallel to the parking lot if you are unsure. The sidewalk in the parking lot are in good condition. Museum  45.66107, -110.56428