Big Hole River, Glen, Montana.

We left Cedar City, Utah and headed north to visit with other family members. The Madison River in Montana was our planned destination for a 4th of July campout with Eileen, Jared and Sandy. 

Alas, it was wall-to-wall people along the Madison.  We could not find two canpsites so we headed west.  The first night was spent in a pull off for trucks. As the traffic declined during the night, we were able to get a peaceful night's sleep.


We found two very nice campsites along the Big Hole River.  The fishing was excellent, although I just enjoyed the ride and watched Jared real them in.

This sign marks the entrance to the campground.

The boat launching area is located just down stream from the bridge.  Jared and Eileen launched their raft upstream and took it out here.

This is a view of the river down stream from the launch site.

Although the ground was a little uneven along our campsite, it was a quiet, almost private site.

Jared and Eileen's 5th Wheel was an easy walk from ours.  As one can see, there was plenty of room.  We were using our pickup to transport the raft to the launch site.

We made a side trip to Bannack, MT and enjoyed a guided tour by a gentleman who was a retired history professor.  He filled us in on a lot of the history of how the Idaho-Montana border was determined, and how the mining in the area was carried out.  The food and supplies were shipped in from Salt Lake City, UT.

I did not have my camera along, but took some pictures with our Android phone.  

This is a group photo taken on the stairs of the hotel in Bannack. Sandy was the photographer so she is missing in this photo.

Here is the hotel from the outside.  We took some other pictures, but I am having trouble getting the blog to open them from my downloads.  Here is a link to the Bannack website. A lot of information about the "Ghost Town" can be found on the site, although we were told by our guide Bannack had never really been a ghost town because one lady had continued to live there.


A movie was purchased that had been filmed in Bannack.  Jared rigged up a huge movie screen on the side of his 5th wheel.  We had fun seeing the scenes in the movie we recognized from Bannack.  I'll leave a critique of the movie to others, but I'll suggest that it did not get two thumbs up.