Ingomar
 Ingomar is a trade center for the surrounding sheep raising area. It has one of the largest sheep shearing plants in the state. In the early days Ingomar and Sumatra were the chief trading towns for the homesteaders in western Garfield County. Freight wagons were often caught in the Gumbo Flats—a wide strip of land south of Sand Springs that can’t be crossed when it’s wet. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) Explore one of North America's last frontiers in a land still untouched by the twentieth century. Ride horseback and push cattle across the most beautiful and remote country left on earth. Ingomar has several of its original historic buildings still intact. The original frame school building, the Jersey Lilly, and Bookman Store were all placed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, so come learn about Ingomar’s history.
Across from the Jersey Lilly Bar & Café is a rodeo arena. Area residents banded together to construct a rodeo arena, which has become the home of the Ingomar Open Rodeo. The rodeo is held each July and is open to all cowboys. Children’s activities, food and drink, dancing, horseshoes, an auction, and other activities take place on the day of the rodeo.
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The Historic Jersey Lilly Campground provides a meeting place for locals and visitors, with good food and place to hang your hat, hitch your RV or pitch your tent, and catch a night’s rest. Ingomar is a small town, so guests need not worry about noisy nights. The Jersey Lilly Bar & Café had its beginnings as a bank in 1914. The Jersey Lilly is internationally known for its beans and steaks. The cherry wood, back bar of the Jersey Lilly is one of two which were transported from St. Louis by boat up the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers and installed at Forsyth in the early 1900s. This bar was stored at Forsyth during Prohibition, sold to Bob Seward, and installed here in 1933; the other back bar was destroyed in 1912, when the American Hotel burned in Forsyth.