Yellowstone Film Ranch is a full-service production facility located just north of Yellowstone National Park in the rural community of Livingston, Montana. Working in partnership with the Montana Film Office, this facility provides major entertainment industry projects with a professional studio as well as assistance with filmmaking matters that range from technical production problems to tax credit acquisition.
Many modern western film productions (including Unholy Trinity, Murder at Yellowstone City, and Rust) have utilized Yellowstone Film Ranch’s extensive backlot, with its numerous interconnected western-themed sets. In fact, this backlot offers the cinematic exteriors of an entire small town that reflects the authentic style of an American West gold rush outpost from the late 1800s.
In addition to its 19 structural facades, the Yellowstone Film Ranch backlot contains five fully functional buildings that are camera-ready from the outside and house interior sets that can provide ideal settings for scenes of all kinds in a western film. All backlot sets, which include a farmhouse and a Native American camp, stand against a real-life natural background of treelined hills and glacier-capped mountains.
