Take a step back in time when you explore Montana's Old West — mountains, valleys, and prairies with a history of ranchers and miners. After visiting the Old West ghost town of Bannack or the ...

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 ...

Over the past three decades, the DEQ-administered program has closed more than 1,600 mine openings around the state. Leroy Brenteson was driving a tractor across his fields in eastern Montana nearly ...

Nestled up high in the heart of an expansive, pine-covered mountain range is the long-abandoned Garnet, Montana's self-proclaimed "best preserved ghost town." Founded in the late 1800s, this ...

Montana may be famous for its incredible open landscapes, interesting wildlife, and dramatically rugged mountains, but it also holds a far spookier best-kept secret: its ghost towns. These ...

I looked with great interest at the name etched into the wooden sign. The wood had been transformed from years of unrelenting sunshine, rain, wind and from who-knows-how-many blizzards. The letters on ...

Up high in the Rattlesnake Mountains, northeast of Missoula, Montana at the headwaters of Marshall Creek is Marshall Mountain, a skier's secret destination. Only a short drive from one of the most ...

Things are escalating into a standoff at Montana’s state-owned ghost towns, where rising rents and theme park ambitions, along with a case of embezzlement, are frustrating the owners of some of the ...