20 haunted destinations cataloged across Montana, spanning 15 counties. The collection features museum, haunted hotel, and other dark tourism site — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Dillon, MT
Bannack State Park preserves Montana's first territorial capital and one of the West's most intact ghost towns. Founded after the July 28, 1862 gold strike at Grasshopper Creek, Bannack grew to a peak population of approximately 10,000 before declining through the late 19th and 20th centuries. More than 50 historic structures survive along the original main street.
Butte, MT
The Copper King Mansion was built between 1884 and 1888 by mining magnate and U.S. Senator William A. Clark, one of Montana's three Copper Kings. The 34-room Victorian mansion in Butte operates today as a bed and breakfast and a guided-tour destination, still privately owned by descendants of the family who purchased it in 1953.
Drummond, MT
Garnet was a Montana gold-mining town founded in 1895 in the Garnet Mountains east of Missoula. At its 1898 peak it housed about a thousand residents; a 1912 fire and the exhaustion of accessible gold left it largely empty by 1917, and the Bureau of Land Management has preserved roughly thirty original buildings since 1971.
Dillon, MT
Hotel Meade in Bannack, Montana was constructed in 1875 as the Beaverhead County Courthouse. After Bannack lost the county seat to Dillon in 1881, the building stood vacant until 1890, when it was remodeled into the Hotel Meade. The hotel operated intermittently into the 1940s. Bannack became a Montana state park on August 15, 1954, and the Hotel Meade is preserved as part of the larger ghost-town complex.
Deer Lodge, MT
Old Montana Prison operated as the Montana Territorial Prison from 1870 and the Montana State Prison from 1889 until 1979, when inmates were transferred to a new facility west of Deer Lodge. The 1959 inmate riot lasted 36 hours, included the murder of the deputy warden, and ended with the deployment of the Montana National Guard. The prison is now operated as a museum by the Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation.
Virginia City, MT
Virginia City was founded in 1863 after Bill Fairweather and Henry Edgar discovered gold at Alder Gulch. It served as Montana's territorial capital from 1865 to 1875 and was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1961. The Montana Heritage Commission has managed the town as a living-history site since the state purchased the Bovey family preservation holdings in 1997.
Billings, MT
Moss Mansion in Billings, Montana was designed by New York architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and completed in 1903 for banker Preston Boyd Moss. Hardenbergh is best known for designing the Plaza Hotel and Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The mansion has been operated as a house museum since the 1980s.
Billings, MT
The building at 2223 Montana Avenue in Billings is a 1920s commercial structure historically known as the Sawyer Stores building. On December 8, 1945, a C-47 military transport carrying soldiers home from World War II crashed in a blizzard near present-day Veterans Park, killing two crew and seventeen of nineteen soldiers aboard. With the county morgue overwhelmed, thirteen of the bodies were stored in the refrigerated warehouse of the grocery business then at this address. The building later housed the Spaghetti Depot and Depot Antique Mall and, since a 2016 renovation, offices and a distillery.
Billings, MT
The hotel at 27 North 27th Street in downtown Billings opened in September 1980 as the Sheraton Billings. At 245 feet it is the second-tallest building in the northern Rocky Mountain region and the tallest hotel in Montana. It was renamed the Crowne Plaza Billings in 2006 and the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Billings in 2016. Local lore connects the site to the early-1900s red-light district, though no documented link between the tower and any specific brothel has been established.
Butte, MT
The Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives occupies the Quartz Street Fire Station, a 1900 brick fire hall on the National Register of Historic Places. The building served as an active firehouse from 1900 until the late twentieth century and has housed the city-county archives since 1981.
Butte, MT
The Sisters of Charity founded St. James Hospital in Butte, Montana in 1881, establishing a sanctuary for miners, migrants, and the poor in what was then a raw mining boomtown. The facility expanded in 1889, 1896, 1906, and 1915 to serve a rapidly growing population, and added a nursing school in 1906. The hospital shifted operations to Butte Memorial Hospital in 1962, after which the old building served various functions before becoming a paranormal investigation venue.
Great Falls, MT
Black Horse Lake is a shallow, seasonal 576-acre lake bed in Cascade County, Montana, just northeast of Great Falls along the corridor of US Highway 87 toward Fort Benton. The lake is usually dry except in spring and early summer. The surrounding prairie has long been associated with travel routes across north-central Montana, and the highway here is the setting for one of the state's best-known road legends.
Great Falls, MT
The building at 518 Central Avenue in downtown Great Falls was built in 1914 by J.G. Anthony as the Davenport Hotel. Over the following century the upper floors operated as a hotel and, by local account, as a speakeasy and brothel during Prohibition; the building later housed the Jockey Club and the Lobby Bar, and in recent years has operated as The Wild Hare. A fire in November 1925 damaged part of the hotel and, according to local tradition, claimed at least one life.
Crow Agency, MT
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in southeastern Montana preserves the site of the June 25-26, 1876 battle between Lt. Col. George Custer's U.S. 7th Cavalry and a Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho force led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and other warriors. Custer and 210 troops were killed. The Indian Memorial was developed beginning in 1996 in partnership with the affected tribes.
Deer Lodge, MT
The Montana Territorial Prison in Deer Lodge received its first inmate on July 2, 1871. The cornerstone was laid June 2, 1870, after the territorial government selected Deer Lodge as the site in 1867. The prison served as Montana's primary penal institution from its 1871 opening through 1979, when a new facility replaced it. A 1959 riot held the prison and surrounding town under inmate control for 36 hours, killing three people. The facility was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Hamilton, MT
The Ravalli County Courthouse in Hamilton, Montana was built in 1900 on land donated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, funded by a $20,000 county bond. Designed by Missoula architect A.J. Gibson in Classical Revival and Romanesque styles, the building served as the county courthouse from 1901 to 1974 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It now operates as the Ravalli County Museum.
Helena, MT
Broadwater Elementary School is an active educational institution in Montana. The school serves the local community providing primary education to elementary-age students.
Libby, MT
Sportsman's RV Park outside Libby, Montana, occupies the former site of the Riverside Inn, a steak house, gas station, motel, and reportedly a brothel that served construction workers during the late 1960s Libby Dam project. The Inn burned down some years after the dam's completion and was not rebuilt.
Red Lodge, MT
The Pollard Hotel opened in 1893 as the Spofford Hotel, the first brick building in Red Lodge, Montana. Renamed by Thomas F. Pollard in 1902, it served as a frontier crossroads for coal miners and travelers, hosting Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity Jane during the town's mining boom.
Virginia City, MT
The Fairweather Inn occupies a lot on Wallace Street in Virginia City, Montana, deeded in September 1863, weeks after Bill Fairweather's gold discovery at Alder Gulch turned the area into one of the most chaotic boomtowns in the American West. The building began as a meat market, became a hotel and saloon in the 1880s under Frank McKeen's Anaconda Hotel, and was renamed and restored by the Bovey family after their purchase in 1946.