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Steve Quane

  • Visitors clamber around on the heap of boulders that make up the Ringing Rocks. The site, east of Butte, MT, was designated as a protected point of interest by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1960s.
    Montana News
    What makes Montana's Ringing Rocks ring?
    John Hooks
    The Ringing Rocks is a roadside attraction people have been visiting for a long time. It's a big heap of boulders that give off a resonant bell-like ringing sound when struck with metal; at least theoretically. A listener wants to know what makes these rocks ring.