Have you ever wandered into a place where time seems to pause, and the sun glows on streets that no longer belong to anyone? Montana’s ghost towns hold that spell, quietly waiting for summer travelers ...

Today, however, fortunes have changed for Garnet. Because the remaining buildings were abandoned rather than disassembled ...

Garnet is one of Montana’s best-preserved ghost towns, where original buildings and guided tours bring 19th-century mining history to life for travelers. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight ...

That town is St. Marie, Montana. St. Marie is where the Glasgow Airforce Base used to stand, about 16 miles from the town of Glasgow . From 1957 to 1968, then again from 1971-1976 St. Marie was home ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — About 35-miles northeast of Missoula, on Bureau of Land Management ground, you will find one of Montana's most intact ghost towns. In our Montana Moment, we found that the abandoned ...

Want more Roadside Americana? Read our full collection of stories here. Today Garnet is a land frozen in time. Its buildings are brimming with original artifacts, and travelers can access the town via ...

HELENA — The Bureau of Land Management is recruiting volunteers in one of Montana’s best known and historic ghost towns. Garnet Ghost Town, located 40 miles east of Missoula, needs a new crop of ...

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BUTTE — With patience and concentration, Deer Lodge photographer Lee Silliman studies an upside-down image of what’s in front of his camera before carefully snapping the shutter. Some would say that ...

The handsomest ghost town of World War II—Mouat, a $15 million investment in chrome—sat on a shelf of Montana’s Bear Tooth Mountains last week, all but deserted. Shiny new fire engines parked unused.