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Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 4,400 feet (1,341 meters) above Tin Cup Creek in two miles (3.2 km), and 5,400 feet (1,646 meters) above Lake Como in four miles (6.4 km). This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. [3]
Originally located near West Olive (Port Sheldon) on Lake Michigan (1916–1927) it re-located to Duck Lake, near Whitehall, Michigan, in 1927 the property was acquired by the Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s and is now part of Duck Lake State Park. Gerald R. Ford was a camp staff member there in 1927–28. Camp Silver Lake
The El Capitan Lodge is a Rustic-style lodge built in 1935 on Lake Como in the Bitterroot National Forest in Ravalli County, Montana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1] It was "designed by N.J. Kramis and other charter members of the Hamilton Hikers' Club." [2]
Not all are open to the public. Some of those open to the public will have living history guides. Battery Gunnison, a US Army Coast Artillery Battery at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, is being restored to its 1943 configuration by the Army Ground Forces Association, a non-profit living history organization, and is open for tours throughout the year ...
Como Dam (National Inventory of Dams ID MT00564) is a dam in Ravalli County, Montana, in the far western part of the state.. Como Dam was originally constructed by local farmers around 1910, to impound a natural lake for irrigation storage; the United States Bureau of Reclamation enhanced and stabilized that structure in 1954, in 1976, and in 1992-1993.
Black Sandy State Park is a public recreation area on the western shore of Hauser Lake reservoir, an impoundment of the Missouri River, located thirteen miles (21 km) northeast of Helena in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, in the United States. [2] The park is along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
Bannack, a Montana ghost town. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Montana.. A ghost town is a town or city which has lost all of its businesses and population. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.
In 1964, Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield requested the National Park Service study the area's potential as a national park. The park service declined to pursue the idea. [ 1 ] The name is derived from the town and its copper mining company and from Charles and Katie Pintler, homesteaders who in 1885 settled along Pintler Creek between the Big ...