Bannack

Long post from Bannack Montana State Park. Bannack is an actual ghost town, that was turned into a state park on the promise that it would not become a 'living ghost town' like nearby Nevada City and Virginia City.

Bannack was really cool, and I wish I had taken my daddy's film camera with me as well as the digital. Also, had we had more time to spend, I'm sure I would have taken more than 200 photos.

I had been looking at pictures of ghost towns, I thought it would be a lot of fun to explore one. Since we were in Montana anyways, it was a natural fit. These are just a few of my favorite pictures from the day, I may post more later but that will just depend.

I would have broken this up, but I just wanted to get them all on here for the 2 of you that look here. ;)

I hope you enjoy looking at these half as much as I enjoyed taking them (which was a lot by the way). :)

Living Ghost Towns

(This is also a long post.. 28 photos)

While we were in Montana, we went camping at Ruby River Reservoir. We spent a day and a half looking for garnets/gold. It was a lot of fun! We all found a lot of garnets, as they were everywhere you looked. The gold was also found, of course not as easily. One of the days we were there, we took a break from looking at the ground and drove a few miles to see some 'living ghost towns' Nevada City and Virginia City. These towns were really cool, and interesting.. But I would have liked them better had they not been living. You think of ghost towns, you don't think of gift shops and ice cream shops. Anyways, they had run down buildings (since it was a ghost town) as well as some fixed up ones that were now restaurants and gift shops. Some of the more run down buildings had their doors open, and you could walk in a few feet, but then were stopped by a fence and could only look around. Others, had glass so you couldn't really see much. Over all, it was a nice place to visit and I'm glad I got the experience. Here's a few of my favorite pictures of the day.

A washing machine..






This is one of my favorites from the day! ^^

This is by far my favorite though. ^^

I LOVED this clock, but it was behind glass so you couldn't get a good picture. The sun was really bright (imagine that) and the glare was awful. I tried to fix it, but this is the best I could do.

There was a candy shop.. and a guy making taffy. imagine that.


They actually hung 5 men in that building, It was a little creepy so I didn't take any pictures inside.

The court house. pretty building. Just wish there weren't so many dang cars everywhere.