Hell Gate, Montana

Hell Gate, Montana
Hell Gate is located in Montana
Hell Gate
Hell Gate
Hell Gate is located in the United States
Hell Gate
Hell Gate
Coordinates: 46°53′00″N 114°05′13″W / 46.88333°N 114.08694°W / 46.88333; -114.08694[1]
CountryUnited States
StateMontana
CountyMissoula
Established1860
Abandoned1866
Elevation
3,124 ft (952 m)

Hell Gate (sometimes known as Hell Gate Ronde, Hell's Gate or Hellgate) is a ghost town at the western end of the Missoula Valley in Missoula County, Montana, United States. The town was located on the banks of the Clark Fork River roughly five miles downstream from present-day Missoula near what is now Frenchtown.[2]

  1. ^ "Hell Gate (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Fogarty, Kate Hammond. The Story of Montana. New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes company, 1916.