COMMENTS: This town more or less folded in the early 40's due to a coal mine disaster. There are a lot of mine shafts still there. There are a few people that have built houses there now, but a lot of old foundations still exist. The road is paved into Bear Creek itself, but roads to the mines are not. The road continues into Red Lodge, 2 or 3 miles away, but the grade is quite steep and gets icey. Bear Creek has snow pack and ice on the pavement that goes thru it.

Most of the old structures were demolished to make room for the new homes in development as of September 2002. The small town is primarely a bedroom Town for Red Lodge and Belfry. Located in between Red Lodge and Belfry. The town is sign posted.
REMAINS: Some residents. There isn't much left now. The Town's historical marker stands near the foundations of the old Hotel.

Bear Creek has a very small post office. It was a town of 2,000 when it had coal mining. Submitted by: Norma Jean Anderson

I don't remember much of this villages history. It was a popular road stop, because it had a convinient Hotel, Post office and General store. Much like today it was used as a home setteling village for near by towns like Red Lodge and also Washoe mining camp (now also a ghost town). Bear Creek lost it's popularity during WW2, and economically failed shortly after. I would encourage people to reaserch Bear Creek's history further.
-Ryan Hill