Posted in Montana
April 17, 2018
The Remnants Of This Abandoned Town In Montana Are Hauntingly Beautiful
Imagine living in Montana in 1895, when the land was wild and untamed and the mining boom was just beginning. Perhaps you would have been one of the first inhabitants of Garnet, the once-thriving community located about 30 miles east of Missoula. Although it was abandoned long ago, it remains one of our best-preserved ghost towns, and it’s still beautiful.
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Local miners were much more interested in extracting the riches below the ground that building a town above it.
The buildings may not have been meant to last, but they certainly did.
The Garnet Mountains attracted miners who collected gold first by panning, then by using rockers and sluice boxes.
Travel + Leisure even named Garnet one of America's coolest ghost towns.
The Garnet Preservation Association, a local nonprofit, helps keep things running.
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