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Originally Posted by 1976gmc20
We're over near the middle of the state, not in any town at all.
About 16 miles to the nearest gas station and a little farther to the PO. That's all there is there besides a bar.[/QUOTE
Sounds like you described Pony. Wife and I volunteered as camp host at Bannack, an old mining town and Montana got it, made a state park, and try to keep it as original as possible. Interesting place to visit, read all the history, and things that took place there back in it's heyday. We really enjoyed our 30 days there, and could run over to Pony to visit son and wife on our days off.
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I'm kicking myself now that we missed Bannack by only a few miles back in 2003. We had gone over to a dog show in Missoula with the twins and then down to the Big Hole valley where we saw the battle field and camped way up at the headwaters south of Jackson for a few days. Then we headed back home but turned off and went over that scenic highway through the Pioneer Mts. If I had known what there was at Bannack I would have for sure went there because it would have been great educational experience for our high school daughters.
That was our last camping trip because living out here on our place in the pineywood hills there just isn't much incentive to go anywhere. The little trailer has gotten all beat to heck in the hail storms but now we have a pickup and canopy and hope to take a few camping and sightseeing trips just the two of us.