Trout Creek was a successful logging, railroading, and mining community of the late 1800s. In 1910 Jim Hylent built the Hylent Hotel on 40 acres that he had purchased and the town was moved downstream to its present location. In 1955-1956 Trout Creek experienced another boom with the construction of the Noxon Rapids Dam.
Trout Creek is located in northwestern Montana, on MT Highway 200 near the Idaho border.