Learn about Castle Town at the Castle Museum in White Sulphur Springs (which is a house museum with a display on the ghost town). Then take Montana Highway 294 to Lennep, itself a neat ghost town.

Thirty-eight years ago, Estes traveled with her family from Chicago to Montana. They visited Castle Town ... "We wanted to see a ghost town," she said.

But the Meagher County ghost town is now a fortress protected not with mottes or baileys but by private property rights. Castle Town, which is nestled in the Castle Mountains in central Montana ...

The ghost towns of Central Montana aren't as well known as Bannack or Virginia City, but just like those more famous mining towns, people once flocked to central Montana in hopes of striking it rich.

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