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13 of Montana's Most Isolated Places You Never Knew Existed

Montana's size and sparse population produced dozens of towns history forgot without filing the paperwork. Diamond City was once the largest city in the entire state — home to a third of Montana's population — and today there's not a single wall standing, just a highway marker. Taft, once called "the wickedest city in America" with up to 50 saloons and 500 prostitutes, was simply paved over when Interstate 90 was built in 1962. Some towns died over pure bad timing — Castle Town's silver collapsed the exact same year the railroad they'd been waiting on finally arrived. Others went out on stranger terms, like Pardee's mine, which survived market crashes for decades then closed permanently for refusing to add a second exit door. The real Montana isn't the postcard — it's the mill that fell off a mountain with nobody close enough to hear it, and one lit window in an otherwise empty ghost town whose occupant nobody can identify.