The Ruby Valley is a paradise for the outdoor enthusiast. Bird Watchers will find a myriad of species to add to their life lists. Boaters enjoy drifting area streams or power boating, tubing or jet skiing on the Ruby Reservoir, a thousand acre multipurpose reservoir just south of Alder with paved highway access. In the fall, waterfowl hunters will find terrific duck and goose shooting.

Blue Ribbon Trout Streams like the Big Hole, Jefferson, Ruby and Beaverhead provide not only some of the finest fishing opportunities in the Rocky Mountain West but also offer superb river rafting, and canoeing.

If you are an big game hunter, rock hound, camper, hiker, wildflower collector or mountain biker you will find hundreds of square miles of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management acreage to explore in the Tobacco Root, Ruby, Highland, McCartney, Pioneer, Snowcrest, Greenhorn and Gravelly Mountain ranges that guard the Ruby Valley.

For those hardy souls who really like to escape civilization you can travel into the high county using mechanized horsepower of ATV’s and Four Wheelers or you can go the tried and true way on the back of a horse or mule.

In the winter months a whole other world can be discovered in these beautiful mountain ranges around the Ruby Valley when you clamp on snowshoes and cross-country skis or crank up a snowmobile and trek into the deep snows of the high country.