While the Treasure State today is best known for its natural treasures, including Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, settlers first came to the Montana territory to unearth treasures from the ...

The American West is packed with fascinating ghost towns, and Montana is no different. The eerie vibes are immense at the best-preserved in the Last Best Place.

COMET - Once lauded as one of Montana's most intact ghost towns, Comet is slowly collapsing into the surrounding grass and sagebrush.

Find ghost towns that will show you what life was like in the 1800s in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in the greater Yellowstone National Park area.

Near the bandstand is a boulder with holes drilled into it, the legacy of a drilling contest on Miners Union Day in 1920. Hilger came along in 1911 and had the advantage of being on the rail line.

A version of this article appears in print on May 2, 2010, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: As a Near Ghost Town In Montana Watches, A Gold Mine Is Reborn.

Thirty-eight years ago, Estes traveled with her family from Chicago to Montana. They visited Castle Town, a once-upon-a-time mining community near White Sulphur Springs, on the edge of the Lewis ...

Dig into Montana’s rich mining heritage, soak in hot springs, and wander through authentic 1800s ghost towns on this Big Sky road trip through the state’s southwestern corner.

Then it petered out — familiar story — to near ghost-town status through the long decades after the mine closed around 1904.

Outside of Helena and in the art world, however, he's known as a meticulous black-and-white photographer who has been finding artifacts and unearthly beauty in Montana's ghost towns for 40 years.

For the miners who found gold along Warm Spring Creek Canyon in 1879, the toughest part may have been keeping silent about their find while they wintered in Junction City along the Yellowstone River.