Garnet Range

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| country = United States

| state = Montana

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| highest=Old Baldy Mountain

| elevation_ft = 7511

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The Garnet Range, highest point Old Baldy Mountain, elevation {{convert|7511|ft|m}},{{cite book|title=Recreational Map of Western Montana|year=1990|publisher=Western GeoGraphics|location=Canon City, CO|isbn=0-528-92551-2}} is a mountain range northeast of Drummond, Montana in Powell County, Montana.

A popular historic site, Garnet Ghost Town, is in the Garnet Range. Situated on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, the ghost town is the remnant of a mining settlement that was inhabited from the late 1800s to the 1930s.{{cite book|title=Montana Atlas & Gazetteer|year=2004|publisher=DeLorme|location=Yarmouth, ME|isbn=0-89933-339-7|page=13}} The town's population reached several thousand during its peak. A visitor center and self-guided tours are available.

Although heavily forested, no portion of the Garnet Range is part of the National Forest system. The BLM owns much of the range, including the 11,580-acre Wales Creek Wilderness Study Area.{{cite web |title=National Landscape Conservation System – Wilderness Study Areas |url=http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ut/natural_resources/nlcs/wilderness_study_areas.Par.88202.File.dat/WSAs%20throughout%20the%20Country.pdf |access-date=7 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6EbwKxmUe?url=http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ut/natural_resources/nlcs/wilderness_study_areas.Par.88202.File.dat/WSAs%20throughout%20the%20Country.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2013 }} The Wales Creek WSA is the last major drainage area without a road in the western Garnets, and features dense forests of lodgepole pine, spruce, Douglas fir, larch, aspen, and subalpine fir.{{cite book|last=Cunningham|first=Bill|title=Montana Wildlands|year=1990|publisher=American Geographic Publishing|location=Helena, MT|isbn=0-938314-93-9|pages=43–44}} Wales Creek WSA also hosts a thriving moose herd, goshawk nesting sites, a native cutthroat trout fishery, and four hot springs used in the past by miners and now by skiers and hunters.

Another BLM Wilderness Study Area is in the eastern Garnets: the 11,380-acre Hoodoo Mountain WSA. This WSA is separated from unprotected BLM land in the Gallagher Creek drainage by a dirt road. Petrified wood is found along streams in the Gallagher Creek area.

On the southern slope of the Garnets near the town of Drummond, the BLM's Rattler Gulch Area of Critical Environmental Concern protects 20 acres of exposed Madison Group limestone cliffs.{{cite book|title=Montana Atlas & Gazetteer|year=2004|publisher=DeLorme|location=Yarmouth, ME|isbn=0-89933-339-7|pages=5}} Parking is provided, as Rattler Gulch is a popular rock-climbing area.{{cite web|last=rockclimbing.com|title=Rattler Gulch|url=http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/North_America/United_States/Montana/South_West/Rattler_Gulch/|access-date=14 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225130034/http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/North_America/United_States/Montana/South_West/Rattler_Gulch/|archive-date=25 February 2008}}

Grizzly bears have recently been confirmed inhabiting the Garnets.{{cite news|last=Chaney|first=Rob|title=Radio collar confirms griz on Missoula fringe for 1st time|url=http://missoulian.com/news/local/radio-collar-confirms-griz-on-missoula-fringe-for-st-time/article_e753fc20-65b8-11e2-ba37-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=24 January 2013|newspaper=Missoulian}}