12 backcountry hiking and 4WD adventures in Montana’s Central Rockies.

“Meadows” Gold Dredge
After visiting the Yankee Fork dredge, I was really interested to see if I could find an abandoned dredge out ...
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“Misty Mountain” Mine
Deep in the misty forests of Montana, we found an amazing mining camp. Abandoned but with quite a bit of ...
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Algonquin Mine
The Algonquin is an old mine. It was one of the earliest mines in Montana’s Philipsburg district. By 1877, it ...
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Bannack Ghost Town
Over the summer of 2015, we visited the fantastic ghost town of Bannack, Montana, which has been well preserved and ...
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Blackmail Mill
There isn’t much left at this old silver mill also known as the Moorelight. I had a fun time climbing ...
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Brooklyn Mine (Boulder Creek District)
I couldn't find much history on this spot. Only that it was worked in 1907 for silver, lead, zinc, and ...
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Forest Rose Mill
During the summer of 2017, we visited a few cabins and mills in Montana. We covered a lot of ground ...
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Hecla Mining Camp
In 1872, William “Billy” Spurr and James Bryant discovered the Trapper lode high in a cirque on Lion Mountain. News ...
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Lakeshore Mine
I hiked up an old forest road to a mining camp that sits along the shore of a small glacial ...
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Marietta Mill
An old mill, lurking in the hills above Virginia City, Montana, has almost completely fallen into ruin. Years of harsh ...
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Scratch Awl Mill
Over this last summer, we visited a few old mining ruins in Montana. We went out of our way to ...
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Winnekta Mill
It is rare to find a Chilean mill out in the wild, not to mention one that is ten feet ...
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Last Updated on January 29, 2021 by Guy Starbuck