Entry No. 18 — the Missoula file — filed under: hands-on

Missoula Urban Demonstration Project (MUD)

MUD is a scrappy sustainability nonprofit that runs hands-on skill workshops, including blacksmithing taught for years by Mark Vander Meer. In a session you light the forge, heat an iron spike until it glows red-hot and malleable, then hammer it on the anvil into something useful like a coat hook. It is loud, hot, genuinely old-world work rather than a sanitized craft kit.

The move: Sign up together for a blacksmithing workshop and forge a pair of hooks from raw iron spikes over the coals.

📍 Before you go Blacksmithing workshops run periodically through the year and fill quickly; check MUD's current workshop calendar at mudproject.org for the next session.

• 📍 Missoula
• 💸 $$
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 1527 Wyoming St, Missoula, MT 59801

Hours: Added 2026-06-24 — confirm current hours before you go.

⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.

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Proof: source 1 · source 2 · source 3 · source 4

last checked: 2026-06-24