Garnet is one of Montana’s best-preserved ghost towns, where original buildings and guided tours bring 19th-century mining ...

It’s quiet now, especially when heavy snows descend on the Garnet Mountain Range. More than 120 years ago though, Garnet was a boisterous place, going full blast even in the harsh winter months. Its ...

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A chance to really get to know the ghosts at Garnet Ghost Town is one of the benefits of a volunteer residency summer program at the historic site. “It’s primitive, to say the least,” U.S. Bureau of ...

MISSOULA — Interested in living in a Montana ghost town for a month, with no electricity or indoor plumbing, and groceries for pay? So’s everybody else. You’re too late. The job is filled. Folks at ...

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 ...

Growing up in Pennsylvania, Larry Roland was a voracious reader - a "reading fool," as he puts it - and the American West was his favorite topic. Which developed an interest in ghost towns. That led ...

Someone stole an antique cash register from Garnet Ghost Town earlier this week. The theft apparently took place between Sunday night and Monday morning when someone broke into the visitor center, ...

To walk the streets of Garnet ghost town is to step back in time, free from intrusions of modern society. Montana's most intact ghost town was never built to last. Garnet endures along with the ...