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 ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town ...

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 ...

Explore 12 hauntingly beautiful U.S. ghost towns that come alive with autumn color and history waiting to be rediscovered.

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 ...

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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.