Coram, Montana may be tiny, just under 550 residents in 2010, but it’s a longtime neighbor to Glacier National Park. Named for lumberman William Coram, the community began as a logging camp back in 1905 and flourished when the Great Northern Railway laid its tracks through the area. The real boom came between 1948 and 1953, when the Hungry Horse Dam was built nearby.
Today, Coram is all about glacier access, rustic lodging, and quiet hospitality. You’ll find campsites, guest ranches, and a distillery, but mostly it serves as a gateway into Glacier Country. From my train window, Coram looked like a place I wouldn’t rush through. It looked like a perfect pause before the grandeur of a national park.
Just outside town lies the Coram Experimental Forest, established in 1933 for studies on western larch trees. Some of those trees are over 500 years old.
No grand downtown or sweeping views, just a quiet place anchored in natural beauty and glacier history, a whisper before the peaks.
