Bozeman Cottage's
                                             Spring Creek House

Panorama showing kitchen, dining room, and living room all opening onto the wrap-around deck.

 

The spacious living room centers around a Gallatin granite fireplace, and has oversized windows on three sides.

This well-built and spacious 4000 sq. ft. 5-bedroom home has privacy, beautiful views year round, park-like setting and creek, with loads of room for family or multi-family use. The house has a superb location, just 1.5 miles from Main St., a few blocks from the Museum of the Rockies and several restaurants, and less than a half mile to MSU.  The house is located in one of Bozeman's few R-1 neighborhoods where frequent rentals are restricted, so contracts are for rental periods of 30 days or more.  Rates are comparable to or less than similar listings, and multi-month discounts are available.

Kids or adults will love staying here! The lowest level, below ground, has a full-sized racquetball/handball court with basketball hoop, and can be used for volleyball and badminton as well (equipment is on hand). 

The entry level includes the living room, kitchen, dining room, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a mud room and the garage. The living room has a wood-burning fireplace, TV/DVD/VCR, and audio equipment. A large wraparound deck is accessed from three rooms, and has plenty of seating and great views of the Bridger Mountains, Gallatin Range, and the Hyalite Peaks.  The ground level opens onto the back yard, and has three bedrooms, two half-baths plus a separate shower room, a laundry area, and a spacious family room with several futons, piano, children’s play table, puppet theatre, TV/VCR/DVD and a collection of games and toys.  The five bedrooms provide sleeping space for up to 10 people, with additional sleeping space for occasional visitors (details below). The house is also quite comfortable for use by two people, using just the entry level. Linens and towels are provided.  No pets. 

The kitchen, adjacent to the dining room and deck, is extremely well-equipped, and has a double oven, dishwasher, and a collection of cookbooks. There is a small table in the kitchen plus a cafe table on the deck outside the kitchen. For outdoor eating there is a catering table stored in the garage, tablecloths on hand, and a streamside table and chairs. There is a second refrigerator in the garage. 

The house is well-equipped for small children, and has two portable crib/playpens, a stationary crib, an antique cradle, a highchair, crumb mat, booster seat, potty seat, plastic plates and cups, and step stools. 

The house is equipped for wireless internet access throughout the house, and a laser printer is on hand. The house has digital cable TV service, and free long distance calling (US and Canada). 

There is a garage and a handy mud room. The lovely yard has a bridge over a small stream, trees, shrubs, flowers, and a vegetable garden with a raspberry patch. There is creekside seating, and a flat area for croquet, Frisbee, and volleyball, plus a gentle slope for sledding. There is wildlife in the area.  The house is adjacent to the Bozeman trail system, and the owners can often ski right from the house. The shallow spring-fed creek which runs through the lower back yard, is one of the tributaries of the Gallatin, which in turn joins the Jefferson and Madison rivers 30 miles west to form the headwaters of the Missouri.

Entry level: Bedroom #1: Master bedroom, very spacious, with queen bed, stationary crib, antique cradle. 

Bedroom #2: full/double bed. 

Entry level bathrooms: the master bedroom has a full bath with tub/shower/dressing room; and there is a full bathroom with tub/shower adjacent to bedroom #2. 

Two portable playpen/cribs are stored in the master bedroom closet, and a portable foam bed is stored under the bed in the master bedroom. 

The living room has a new Italian leather sofa, which has a pull-out double bed.

Lower level (opens onto back yard): 
Bedroom #3: full/double bed. 
Bedroom #4: 2 twin beds (one with a Japanese-style futon.)
Bedroom #5: queen bed. 
Downstairs family room: (typically used for a children's dorm-style room) full/double futon sofa/bed (Japanese style), futon love seat/bed for small child, two single fold-out foam beds (2.5 x 6'). 

Lower level bathrooms: two half-baths and a separate travertine marble shower room.

The beautifully-equipped kitchen includes all the extras, and even a great view! A gas grill is out the sliding glass door on the lower deck.

Dining Room adjacent to Kitchen with extra seating

Bozeman is a great town, with a charming main street, galleries, shops and many restaurants. There's the Museum of the Rockies and planetarium, the American Computer Museum, Gallatin County Museum, Emerson Cultural Center, summer Shakespeare in the Parks, several theater companies, the annual Sweet Pea Festival, and other yearly events. The new library is wonderful, and has a terrific children's area. The recreation department has a fine indoor pool facility, with enormous floating children's toys, as well as an outdoor pool with waterslide, and there are swimming ponds, outdoor ice rinks, groomed X-C trails, and a public skatepark. Bridger Bowl offers great alpine skiing and snowboarding an easy 16 mile-drive to the north, with Bohart Ranch, a fine XC-facility, just beyond. Big Sky and Moonlight Basin are an hour+ south in Gallatin Canyon. There are three hot springs resorts in the vicinity, the closest 15 minutes west. Two public golf courses are within 6-12 miles, with a private course a block away. World-class fly fishing, and river-running, from gentle to action- packed, are available on the Gallatin, Madison, and the Yellowstone Rivers, within a half-hour or more. The entrance to Yellowstone Park is a scenic drive 90 minutes (via either West Yellowstone or Gardiner). The Headwaters of the Missouri State Park is a half-hour west, and Lewis and Clark Caverns are 45 minutes away. There's great walking/hiking/mountain biking, with an excellent trail system that runs from town to the mountains. An extensive system of groomed XC trails in winter provides great skiing, in town, in Hyalite Canyon 20 minutes south, and at Bohart Ranch in Bridger Canyon, with many additional ungroomed trails. In summer, there is lift-served mountain biking at Big Sky, and Bohart XC Ranch opens its trails for mountain biking.

 

Garden:  The herb and flower garden has a large raspberry patch.

View from deck towards NE:  The house is very private, and has mountain views north, east, and south, a one-acre yard, and a shallow year-round spring creek.

View from south of house, both levels, and deck:  The hillside construction provides great indoor light as well as great views upstairs and down.

Rates
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                               Downstairs Family Room 

 
                                          Sports Court and equipment

"Spring Creek is the best!  Paul is great to work with.  We were very comfortable with 10 family members.  We loved having a family dinner picnic outdoors by the stream.  The broad porch, with an incredible view of the mountains, was a wonderful place for family get-togethers.  The grounds and flower garden were in beautiful condition and much enjoyed.  We loved being near both town and hiking trails.  The house had a charming kitchen filled with everything you could need, plus rooms filled with family games, latest audio and visual equipment and delightful collections of books.  The master bedroom and bath, with private access to the porch, was a special treat. Gilbert & Nancy, Jacksonville, Florida

"Your house had wonderful surprises! The kitchen was a great place for us to prepare our holiday meals. The piano was such a treat. Something for everyone. Great skiing, the gym, the yard, the porch swing. It is truly a work of art." Thank you for sharing.  January '11

"Thank you, we loved your home. We gathered from New Hampshire, Arkansas, Maryland, Denmark and Bozeman to celebrate an 80^th birthday and 55^th wedding anniversary. What a wonderful place to come together. We enjoyed white water rafting, floating the Madison, Norris Hot Springs, the Farmers; Market, Music on Main, and great meals together."  July '10 

"We had a wonderful time in your beautiful home. We all enjoyed the views, wildlife, basketball and Bozeman. A great homebase for three generations." May '10

"We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Spring Creek house. It was so comfortable and spacious and the kids really loved the big yard! The house was very well set up with everything we could possibly need and the instructions on everything was a huge help. We've stayed in several houses over the past few summers and it's little things like that that make a big difference in being comfortable in a strange house. Please give the owners our best regards and thank you Paul, for all your help in making our vacation a really nice one!"
                            - Anne, July 2006, Pheonix, Arizona

"Hi Paul:
I wanted to tell you that the Spring Creek house was wonderful in every way! It met our needs perfectly and we were so impressed by the thoughtfulness of the owners with their notes and graciousness. So thanks a lot for helping us have a very successful, fun celebration in Bozeman last weekend. We told lots of people to keep it in mind for their family get-togethers."       -  Donna, Dec 2004
 

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This page last updated on:  Tuesday April 16, 2013