Airmail routes and the airway beacon towers were even honored on a 1928 five-cent air mail U.S. postage stamp which depicted an iconic beacon tower along an airway route in Wyoming.

And then every 10 or 20 miles, they put up a beacon tower with a light on it. If you'd like to see that, I'd love to show you what it looks like in real life. - Oh, yeah, yeah, let's go see it.

The Silver Bow Airway Beacon and its 55-foot tower seen here was erected in 1937 and sits atop a mountain peak about 3 miles northwest of Ramsay and 6 miles west of Butte.

Across from Tower Rock State Park, outside the town of Cascade, Ken Wilhelm prepares to make the steep climb to the Hardy Creek airway beacon. There is no road to the top of the ridge where the ...

“I’d have been really curious if I had seen the arrow,” he said. Today, little remains except a piece of the wall and concrete chunks where 80 years ago stood a key to the most envied ...

The Northwest Montana Posse of Westerners history organization will host a presentation titled "Guiding Lights: Montana's Historic Airway Beacon System" by Kate Hampton next Monday in Kalispell.

Aging airway beacons still light the way in Big Sky Country, but tending to them requires special devotion. Workers climb a 91-foot tower on the side of a mountain—and carry bear spray.

HELENA — With his coat zipped to the collar and his gloves pulled to his wrists, Mike Rogan knocked the hoarfrost from the metal ladder and began to climb.