Welcome to Havre Montana
Havre, a rural agricultural city, is situated close to the Canadian border backed by a wide panorama of the open plains. Also a railroad town, it offers modern city conveniences in a remote setting, surrounded by unaltered and uncluttered plains. The economy is diversified with farming, ranching, hospital and health services, education, professional and retail businesses and the railroad. Montana State University-Northern and the headquarters for the Montana Division of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad find their home in Havre.
Today you will find "Havre Beneath the Streets," a unique re-creation of Havre's history. When fire destroyed most of Havre, business owners moved underground to carry on their business until the town could be rebuilt. Visitors can step back in time as far as 100 years ago, into the Sporting Eagle Saloon, a turn-of-the-century honky-tonk where cowboys gambled, kicked up their heels and drank good old-fashioned frontier rot-gut. In the streets below you can also visit an opium den (one of three known to have existed in the early days), a Chinese laundry, bakery, barbershop, an ethnic restaurant, and of course, a bordello. They all look as they did at the turn of the century.