Red Lodge Airport (KRED)
redlodgeairport.comRed Lodge Airport is a public-use airport one nautical mile northwest of Red Lodge, Montana, owned by the City of Red Lodge and Carbon County. The site had to serve two audiences at once: pilots planning an arrival, and a local community using the field for events.
The homepage is built as a briefing, not a brochure. Live METAR is surfaced immediately. CTAF, runway, elevation, and fuel are treated as instrumentation-style facts. Pilot-activated lighting is called out as an advisory. Events — including the annual Wings & Wheels fly-in / cruise-in — have their own dated listings rather than living in a news dump.
Pilot Info, Services, and Rates & Rules are separate, maintainable sections so a small airport staff can update field details, tenant information, and forms without rebuilding the site. Every page is explicit that the information is for reference only and that current publications and NOTAMs govern.
This is the kind of airport site described on the aviation page: field information first, then tenants, events, and community context, on a foundation that stays editable for years.
- Customer
- Red Lodge Airport · KRED
- Type
- Public-use airport website
- Location
- Red Lodge, Montana
- Problem
- Pilots and the community needed current field information, events, and documents in one place.
- What we built
- A full airport site: live weather, field facts, a printable-style pilot brief, services, rates and forms, and event listings.
- Technical notes
- Fast, server-rendered pages; live METAR; maintainable content sections; explicit reference-only language.