Four Dances by drone at sunset

What the video shows

The video opens with one long take, 35 seconds without a cut, that starts at the parking area, passes through the gate and follows the trail through the grass toward the setting sun.

From there it moves to the sandstone formations and hoodoos on the rim, goes out over the cliffs above the Yellowstone River, and ends on the sky going pink over the city.

About Four Dances

Four Dances is 765 acres of undeveloped open space on a plateau about two miles east of downtown Billings, managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Coburn Road borders it on the east and the Yellowstone River on the west, where the cliffs drop 200 to 500 feet to the water.

The ground is mostly native sagebrush and grass, with ponderosa pine in the rock near the cliffs. It is open all year for nonmotorized day use, and there is no fee. The BLM's Four Dances page has the rules and a map.

What a flight like this is for

This is the kind of overview we shoot for ranch and land listings: how the trails and access lay out, what the ground and the rim look like up close, and the view from the top. See ranch and land aerial photography for what a land shoot includes, or real estate drone photography for listings.

Drone photography and video in Billings is $95 for an hour on site, with edited photos and the raw video included. How pricing works.

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