Arlee is located in the beautiful Jocko Valley. The Jocko River flows through the Flathead Indian Reservation out of the Mission Mountains to the east and the Rattlesnake Mountains to the south, originating in the high mountainous and pristine Tribal Wildernesses. As a multi-cultural community loaded with artistic talent, irrigated hay fields, cattle and horse ranches, truck farms, timber, and pockets of both traditional and non-traditional practices from Native American to Buddhist and organic/holistic alternatives Arlee is the eclectic center of rural western Montana.
Travel to and through Arlee and the Jocko Valley has been enhanced by the recent reconstruction of Highway 93 as The People s Way. Promising safer and smoother travel through western Montana, the highway was reconstructed through the Flathead Reservation with tribal and wildlife values at the forefront from concept to construction. While the reconstruction of 93 has reconfigured access to the Hummingbird, with south-bound traffic routed to the west of Arlee, the northbound lanes through town have been landscaped and treat our visitors to a downtown worth stopping in and visiting!
Tony Hoyt is married to his sweetheart Michelle, and is a graduate of the University of Montana. He spent time in the Peace Corp in Liberia and Guatemala. He has 4 kids, 4 grandkids, and a great grand daughter. He spends his free time enjoying the Jocko Valley, and in his many volunteer pursuits: Friends of Arlee Schools; Buttercup Scholarship Run; Water and Sewer Board; and a Founder and Treasurer of the Hellgate Hunters & Anglers. And in his spare time he is a market gardener.
