Bannack Historic Lodge No. 3-7-77 AF&AM of MT

06/01/2026

Church siding is completed!

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

Summer Hours begin today! Park gates open at 8 am and close at 9 pm. The visitor center will be open from 9 am to 6 pm. The park is open every day of the week. Starting Memorial Day Weekend, Town Tours and Mill Tours will be available on the weekends. Call the park 406-834-3413 or email [email protected] to schedule a tour during the week.

05/14/2026

The wonderful new stairs and siding on the Historic Lodge / Schoolhouse in BANNACK. They are safe and very strong now. We thank the Park and all the individuals that had an important part in getting this project nearly completed.
Plan your trip today to view this beautiful building in person. These pictures do not due it justice as it is very special when you walk up those steps and truly feel the difference. We hope to see you in BANNACK to see the other work that has been recently completed and more is yet to come.

05/04/2026

"Bannack Clean-up Day"
Join us for our annual Spring Clean Up
Saturday, May 9th, from 9am 4pm.

Come and see the work that has been done recently to the buildings and the park in general.

Bannack Historic Lodge No. 3-7-77 will be providing a very tasty Lunch to all the Workers

We look forward to seeing you in Bannack

Volunteers are needed to sweep buildings, wash windows, pick up trash and branches, etc.

Help get the Park ready to share a wonderful historical joyful experience for all its visitors.

Bannack State Park
If you have any Questions, please call the park at 406-834-3413 or send an email to [email protected]

03/17/2026

The streets of Bannack, Montana were once quite dangerous and violent. True to the old west tales, Emily Meredith, one of the town's few women wrote this in 1863: I don’t know how many deaths have occurred this winter but that there have not been twice as many is entirely owing to the fact that drunken men do not shoot well… bullets whiz around so, and no one thinks of punishing a man for shooting another...

Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz

03/17/2026

Women’s History Month feature today will be Lucia Darling. Lucia Darling, niece of Sidney Edgeton, arrived with the Edgerton party in September 1863 to Bannack. She was 23 years old at the time and had been a school teacher since she was 16 years old in Tallmadge, OH. Lucia was eager to teach the children of Bannack and in October 1863 held classes in the front room of the Edgerton home. Where the roof was made of sod and the melting snow would soak through making it muddy inside the house. They had to improvise desks and chairs and books for learning. Students brought what books they had at home or from neighbors. While many people consider Lucia Darling, the governor's niece, the first schoolteacher, Emma Zoller and Miss Watson both taught for a time in Bannack. As for the first school that honor probably goes to Ft. Owen where a day school started in Jan. 1861.

12/24/2025

Merry Christmas to you &
your family from your Lodge in Bannack

12/15/2025

We were in Bannack Saturday. We ate pleased to report that the siding / stairs project on the Masonic Lodge / School House is nearly completed. They are working on the stairs to the Lodge now. It looks very good. The new boards are being soaked in linseed oil so the boards are preserved on all sides before installing. They hope to finish the stairs in the near future if the weather stays nice.

12/04/2025

The siding and foundation of the Montana Hotel as well as the stairs to the Masonic Lodge will be completed in the next week. The church siding will be postponed until Spring.