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 ...

Thanks to the boom and bust mining cycles of the west, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are filled with ghost towns. Most of these towns date back to the 1800s and were totally or mostly abandoned, leaving ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont., May 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- During the late 1850s, the gold rush was booming in Montana. As the gold disappeared, so did the people, leaving behind deserted towns. Exploring ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Enthusiasts and historians continue to keep interest alive in one of Montana's most well known ghost towns. Each year, organizers host Garnet Days, at Garnet ghost town, northeast of ...

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 ...

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.