Blue-ribbon trout fishing on the Beaverhead River attracts thousands of anglers here year-round. A capital of southwest Montana’s ranch country, Dillon began as a cattle- and wool-shipping point between Utah and the goldfields of Montana. From the mid-1860s until the early 1900s cattle and sheep remained the primary cargo shipped out of here on the Union Pacific Railroad.
Everyone is a cowboy for the annual Dillon Jaycee Labor Day Rodeo and Parade, which has been staged here since 1914; it's the biggest annual draw. Among the activities that take place at this weeklong celebration leading up to Labor Day are a fair, rodeo, and concert.
