Early November we managed to take one last trip in the JK to Montana. We visited the ghost town of Comet then drove a narrow mountain road until we found this train tunnel near Wicks, Montana. This is the Boulder Train Tunnel. It was abandoned long ago. It is more than a mile long cut through a mountain. The tunnel had a big gate outside the entrances on either end but because of terrible fires in Montana last Summer the gates were opened to allow fire fighters a shortcut through the mountain while fighting forest fires. We were surprised to see the gates were still open. Some fellows on a couple of ATVs came out of the tunnel and said there was no problem going through but the water was kind of deep inside. We couldn't resist and drove through the tunnel, turned around and came back again. What a blast! Jeeps are sooooo much fun!

This is a picture taken out our windshield showing our son's ZJ going through the water ahead of us.



You can see the end of the tunnel ahead of us.



Outside the tunnel, safe and sound.

 

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats pretty cool!

 

thats one cool ass picture! Ive always wanted to do exploring out west in ghost towns and such

 

thats kinda creepy... i would expect zombies to rise out of that murky water...

 

thats awesome! love finding ghost towns and abandoned areas like that. I want to go out west and see some of these old ghost towns someday. There are a few in PA i've been to, and one or two out in VA.

but again, that's awesome and looks like a lot of fun.

 

Extra cool.

 

That looks like a blast.

Have walked through a few, but never had a road still serviceable to get up to the tunnel itself....usually there has been bridges over ravines no longer in existence leading up to them...hike able, but not even Jeep accessible.

 

Hillarious, I was thinking the same thing when I saw the pictures earlier. But, then I just generally think like that.

 

thats crazy.