Welcome to Forest Grove , Montana

Forest Grove is Hereford and Angus country now, but no doubt it was Texas Longhorn country when the post office was established in 1899. There were small coal mines worked in this area in the 1920s and ‘30s. Each mine had a mule to pull the ore cars. Coal was shipped out on the Milwaukee. Forest Grove’s peak population was 525 in 1918, which homesteaders were still hanging on. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)

If a picture paints a thousand words, then you'll discover hundreds of ancient stories when you visit the Bear Gulch Pictographs in the foothills of the beautiful Little Snowy Mountains in Forest Grove. Among the 2,000 pictographs (paintings) and petroglyphs (etchings), you'll see figures of warriors holding shields and clubs, and ochre red elk and bison, along with other designs drawn by Native Americans depicting scenes from their lives.