Missoula

615 Nucleus Ave, Columbia Falls, MT 59912

Bad Rock Books is a used bookstore in Columbia Falls, run by owner Carol Rocks out of three rooms holding more than 20,000 secondhand titles. A coffee counter serves browsers while they search the shelves, and the shop's resident cats wander freely among the stacks.

1593 N 1st St, Hamilton, MT 59840

Bitterroot Antique Mall trades on North First Street in Hamilton, run since 2018 by owners Rebecca and Jim Ryan in the former Swanson's building. Eighteen vendors keep its floor stocked with antique and vintage furniture and collectibles for browsers to work through.

42 1st Ave W, Kalispell, MT 59901

Blacktail Mountain Books is a used bookstore on First Avenue West in Kalispell, holding roughly 50,000 hardcovers, paperbacks, audiobooks, comics and maps. Customers can trade in their own books for store credit with no fee, and the shop will mail orders on request.

11 Main St, Kalispell, MT 59901

Comics Arcade is a comic shop in Kalispell, opened in 2016 by owner Randy Sheppard. It stocks Golden Age through modern comics, holds pull-and-hold orders for regular readers, and lines a back wall with rows of pinball machines for browsing customers.

1420 Montana Hwy 35 Unit 104, Kalispell, MT 59901

Crunchy Cards is a sports card shop in Kalispell, reopened in 2015 after an earlier run in nearby Evergreen during the 1990s. It stocks hobby boxes and graded and ungraded singles, sharing its space with an attached gaming suite called Kingdom of Games.

2901 Brooks St B3, Missoula, MT 59801

EntertainMART is a used media and pop-culture trading shop inside Missoula's Southgate Mall, part of a franchise chain with locations across the Midwest. It buys, sells and trades video games, DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs and vinyl, along with novels and comics brought in by local sellers.

220 N Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT 59802

Fact and Fiction is an independent general bookstore in Missoula, stocking new fiction and nonfiction for browsers across genres and age groups. The shop keeps an active online presence, updating its own site and social pages for the readers who follow it.

3972 US-93 N, Suite G, Stevensville, MT 59870

Graybeard's Collectibles calls itself Stevensville's first comic and tabletop game store, trading on US-93 North. It buys and sells comic books, Magic: The Gathering, Star Wars items, RPGs and graphic novels, and offers comic cleaning, pressing and a subscription pull service.

20 N Main St, Kalispell, MT 59901

Isle of Misfits is an anime and pop-culture shop inside the Kalispell Center Mall, describing itself as the place for anime and pop-culture desires. It carries LEGO and custom minifigures, anime merchandise, posters, figures, plush toys and books, mixing new stock with used finds.

331 Railroad St W, Missoula, MT 59802

Montana Antique Mall fills four floors of the historic Montana Hotel in downtown Missoula, built in 1890 across from the original train depot. Dozens of dealers offer antiques and collectibles ranging from vintage furniture to rare finds across the building's four levels.

1940 Harve Ave, Missoula, MT 59801

Muse Comics & Games has traded in Missoula since 1996, sister store to Splash Page in Billings. It stocks single-issue comics, trades and graphic novels alongside Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40,000 miniatures and board games, with tables set aside for weekly game nights.

1118 W Central Ave, Missoula, MT 59801

Retrofix Games is a tabletop and trading card game store on West Central Avenue in Missoula. Alongside Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40,000 and Pokemon singles, it stocks board games, retro and used video games, dice, miniatures and paint, and ships orders across the region.

237 Blaine St, Missoula, MT 59801

Rockin Rudy's has traded out of a 1920s bakery building in Missoula since 1982, calling itself a hipster department store. Its 25,000 square feet holds records, apparel, toys, cards, incense, posters and gifts, with a vinyl section stocking several hundred thousand records and turntables.

910 S 3rd St W, Missoula, MT 59801

Rockin Rudy's Attic is a music memorabilia and nostalgia shop at 910 South Third Street West in Missoula, the second storefront of the Rockin Rudy's business. Founded by longtime music-industry figure Bruce Micklus, it deals in concert posters, toy collectibles, fine art and sports memorabilia.

103 S 3rd St W, Missoula, MT 59801

Shakespeare & Co has traded as an independent bookstore on Missoula's Hip Strip since 1998, unaffiliated with any chain of the same name. It sells new books, children's titles, journals, cards and gifts, and hosts readings and discussions with local and national authors.

11 Main St Suite C, Kalispell, MT 59901

Swappers, a husband-and-wife-run antique and consignment shop in downtown Kalispell, gathers more than forty dealer booths inside a building dating to 1924. Booths sell antiques, comics, records, trading cards, jewelry, clothing and Montana-made gifts.

2335 Brooks St, Missoula, MT 59801

The Book Exchange has traded as a family-owned new and used bookstore in Missoula since 1979, stocking more than 175,000 titles. A trade-in counter pays cash for comics and graphic novels alongside used books, and an attached cafe gives browsers somewhere to sit and read.